Gentle in temper and disposition

Usage examples of mild.

Contenting themselves, for the most part, with the milder chastisements of imprisonment, exile, or slavery in the mines, they left the unhappy victims of their justice some reason to hope, that a prosperous event, the accession, the marriage, or the triumph of an emperor, might speedily restore them, by a general pardon, to their former state.

Sherry was still in mild disgrace and, with her hands wrapped in acriflavine bandages, she was left in the whaleboat to keep Angelo company.

The old Japan hands who still controlled postsurrender planning anticipated a mild reform agenda at best.

This is a tonic to the kidneys, as well as a diuretic and alterative, and is a mild, but very efficient remedy.

Air Force itself, were suffering a mild form of anomia - the loss of the ability to name an object correctly - as evidenced by their failure to recognize such obviously common things as weather balloons, planets, comets, etc.

However, should it prove too mild in its aperient effects, small doses of Dr.

Burr, himself a victim of mild bibliomania, took most interest in the loaded shelves, along which his eyes travelled with rapid discrimination.

As always she was uncomfortable listening to the mild bickering between Seth and Rhoda, even while she understood the tensions under which they both lived these days.

In another few years, so they said, weather control would be installed on Bocca, and the storms would be scheduled and milder.

The business of the Book Fair continued, and she maneuvered through it in a fog, words like print run, cover art, and mild bookish jokes, washing over her.

She thought alfalfa tea would be good, since it was generally stimulating and refreshing, with some borage flowers and leaves, which made a healthful tonic, and gillyflowers for sweetness and a mild spicy taste.

Mildred because he thought she would tell Bunchy, and he wanted to be independent.

The mild changes of the season, in that lovely clime, affected it not.

If the entire Coven was not present at the appointed hour, she would see to it that they were punished with some mild form of the Vagaries.

They sat down on the hard sand under the cliff at Cush and watched the waves breaking softly and the haze on the horizon and the mild sky.