It may not impossibly induce me to take a more lenientview of your case.
He won't be lenient to us any more than he has beenlenient to others.
The judge decided to be lenient under the circumstances: Bartek was only condemned to three months' imprisonment.
This appreciation of the fundamental ideal underlying our legislative patchwork of eccentricities went hand in hand with a half- humorous and half-lenient understanding of his countrymen's attitude to such questions.
This, of course, was sufficiently lenient to defeat the entire scheme.
The governor's conduct before the appointment of the visitor was more lenient and tolerant than afterwards.
If Charles IX and the queen mother had known the full extent of the cardinal of Lorraine’s treasonable conduct at this time they might not have been so lenient toward him.
Catherine turned to her own advantage an almost forgotten wish of Philip II that he might see her, expressed in July, 1560, when his anxiety was great because of her lenient policy toward the French Protestants (R.
Macko was pleased because he thought that the abbot could not help liking Zbyszko and would be more lenientduring their business transaction.
Perhaps the king will be more lenient to one of our courtiers.
The gilds, too, evinced a readiness to be very lenient in their scrutiny of candidates for admission to their cherished privileges, preferring, for the nonce, numbers to quality.
Philip, magnificent, lavish, debonair, found many lenient apologists for his crimes, while his son received criticism for his faults even from the faithful among his servitors.
You have been too lenient to Collot, who must owe you more than that.
No; for there have been years in which the other mortgagees, who are Bretons and would be loath to ruin a Rochebriant, have been lenient and patient.
Well, he is rich enough to be a very lenient one upon pay-day.
Having so fully betrayed his own guilt, this seemed the only chance of obtaining a lenient judgment.
The former were now five in number, the old birds having raised a nestful of young ones, which were no less efficient in driving every bird from the orchard, or less lenient to the crow, than their parents.
The spirit, on these particular occasions,” says that judicious but lenient critic, “must not be misunderstood.
The interests of conquerors are as much consulted, generally, as their reputation, by such lenient use of their advantages.
Your majesty knows how much I have at heart your friendship as well as your welfare--what pains I take to soften the heart of the conqueror, and to inspire him with more lenient sentiments toward Prussia.
Whether this judgment is more lenient or rigorous, more mortifying or honorable, than that which you may expect at the hands of the public, I will not decide.
If it be so, we are most heartily sorry for it, and have no hesitation in saying, that had we suspected that young author, of being so delicately nerved, we should have administered our reproof in a much more lenient shape and style.
Moore and Campbell fare the best; Southey and Scott are accepted but with reproof; Coleridge and Wordsworth admonished (but Wordsworth in much morelenient terms than in the first edition) and dismissed.
In truth, the Blessed Perfection was a refuge for every weak one, a shelter for every fearing one, kind to every indigent one, lenient and loving to all creatures.
Inasmuch as God is clement and loving to His children, lenient and merciful toward our shortcomings, why should we be unkind and unforgiving toward each other?
He was always lenient with anyone who had what he often referred to as the "illusion of grandeur.
You are a drug fiend-- but I will be lenient with you, for one reason.
Sincerely as the majority of the populace mourned the fate of the Queen, and gravely as the more thoughtful feared for Alexandria's freedom under Roman rule, all rejoiced over the lenient treatment of the city.
The latter did not express his opinion in words, but he knew that Octavianus was more readily induced to noble and lenient deeds when there was no lack of witnesses to report them to the world.
It is so much easier for us to be lenient and charitable towards a man who sins against public morality than towards one who sins against ourselves!
Towards fraud the merchants are quite as lenient as the peasantry.
The doctor had evidently taken a lenient view of the case, regarding the escapade more as a case of temporary insanity than of determined disobedience.
The city that rejects them shall have a less lenient judgment than Sodom; Tyre and Sidon shall be better off than cities like Chorazin and Bethsaida which have seen His miracles; Capernaum, favoured above all, shall sink to the deepest depth.
To human weakness he is lenient and often tender, and even when weakness passes into wickedness, he is just and compassionate.
Posterity has taken a more lenient view of his serious errors of conduct, while according to his genius a shining place among the immortals.
I have been too tender of you, too lenient with you.
The parents are very lenient to their children, and pass over every impertinence; they get small thanks for their kindness, and the boys, especially, often treat their mothers very badly.
