"Mildly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this wood, out of a rock did rise A spring of water, mildly rumbling down, Whereto approached not in any wise The homely shepherd nor the ruder clown, But many muses and the nymphs withal.... But while herein I took my chief delight, I saw (alas!) the gaping earth ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... Mercadet (mildly) You don't know what you are talking about, Violette! Why, my good fellow, people don't arrive from the ...
— Mercadet - A Comedy In Three Acts • Honore De Balzac
... F. came from London in the same manner in the coach. He was mildly delirious with considerable stupor, and moderate pulse, and could give no account of himself. He continued in a kind of cataleptic stupor, so that he would remain for hours in any posture he was placed, either in his chair, or ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... to look. He had expected an Englishman in a country costume of golfing tweeds, like the Englishman in country costume one sees in American illustrated stories. Drooping out of the country costume of golfing tweeds he had expected to see the mildly unhappy face, pensive even to its drooping moustache, with which Mr. Britling's publisher had for some faulty and unfortunate reason familiarised the American public. Instead of this, Mr. Britling was in a miscellaneous costume, and mildness was the last quality one could attribute to him. His ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells
... an amiable kind of young gentleman going about in society, upon whom, after much experience of him, and considerable turning over of the subject in our mind, we feel it our duty to affix the above appellation. Young ladies mildly call him a 'sarcastic' young gentleman, or a 'severe' young gentleman. We, who know better, beg to acquaint them with the fact, that he is merely a censorious ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
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