"Mildly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the next morning. Term had not begun, but he went; a Robin with all the briskness gone out of him, and if still with something of the bird left only of a bird that is moulting. His father was mildly surprised, but applauded the apparent desire for solitary study. His mother was violently surprised, and tried hard to get at his true reasons. She saw with the piercing eye of a relation—that eye from ...
— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim
... leisurely journeying he passed through a belt of burnt lands, and had his curiosity mildly excited by a blackened chimney rising from a heap of ruins near the water. Through this burnt land he travelled swiftly; and about dawn of the fourth day of his quest he came out upon the pasture-lands skirting ...
— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts
... he suggested mildly, "I leave all that to the Swedes. Say, did you ever hear that one about the Swede and the Irishman—you don't happen to be Irish, ...
— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge
... in front of us mildly scuffled with each other at one time, until the one at the end of the pew dropped a marble, which struck the floor and rolled with a frightful noise down the edge of the aisle where there was no carpet. ...
— Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... "I think it best to leave things as they are, father," he said mildly, "especially as Mrs. Jessop, much broken in health because of her daughter's terrible end, has gone back with her husband to live at ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume
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