"Mild" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... looked up in mild astonishment. "No, sir, I didn't hear any bell. I was so absorbed in my studying, sir—" He shut the book and placed it back with the others. "I'm sorry, sir. I'm willing to ...
— Runaway • William Morrison
... you for't, if e'er you know her. 175 A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful! I hope my master's suit will be but cold, Since she respects my mistress' love so much. Alas, how love can trifle with itself! Here is her picture: let me see; I think, 180 If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers: ...
— Two Gentlemen of Verona - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] • William Shakespeare
... and repassed, rigid, supercilious, staring at the young girls with that half-sneering, half-impudent, near-sighted gaze peculiar to the breed. Their insolent eyes, however, dropped before the clear, mild glance of the ...
— Lorraine - A romance • Robert W. Chambers
... Uncle John's mild but determined resistance was a keen disappointment to his friends. Leander thought himself offended. "What fly's stung you, anyhow! Heard from any ...
— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote
... fatal, type of Texas fever, which is always witnessed in the height of the Texas-fever season, that is, during the latter weeks of August and the early weeks of September. When the destruction of corpuscles is slower, a mild, usually nonfatal, type of the disease is called forth, which is only witnessed late in autumn or more rarely in July and the early part of August. Cases of the mild type occurring thus early usually become acute later ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture
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