"Mildly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... episodic in handling a story; Smollett goes him one better: as may most notoriously be seen also in the unmentionable Miss Williams' story in "Roderick Random"—in fact, throughout his novels. Pickle, to put it mildly, is not an admirable young man. An author's conception of his hero is always in some sort a give-away: it expresses his ideals; that Smollett's are sufficiently low-pitched, may be seen here. Plainly, to, he likes Peregrine, ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton
... said mildly, "but the sum was so merely nominal that I bought tickets to the theatre to-night. It's a new war drama, Lydia. I thought you would be pleased to witness its first production in Washington. I am told that the South has very fair treatment in the play. I confess ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry
... said the little maiden; "I think I shall go." And Susan said this in a tone so mildly positive ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... observed Mr. Cupples mildly. "You might infer, perhaps, that when he got up he hurried ...
— The Woman in Black • Edmund Clerihew Bentley
... say that he warred mildly and mercifully in England, according to English ideas, and that he fought the Irish only as they fought each other, must be hard driven when they set up such a defense. The fact that Murrogh O'Brien, at the capture of Cashel, ...
— Friends, though divided - A Tale of the Civil War • G. A. Henty
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