Everybody knows that in war censorship is necessary; every nation employs it, Great Britain rather more leniently than the rest.
Mentone, a Melbourne trained horse, is favourite, and the opinion was that he had been leniently treated, in fact, was the pick of the handicap.
It is not on account of your appearance of poverty that I shall dealleniently with you.
When they got them under lock and key they dealt leniently with them, for public opinion was largely on their side.
As a gentleman of rather unbridled habits of life, and the author of "Broad Grins" and other works certainly paying small heed to the respectabilities, it had been hoped that he would deal leniently with his brother playwrights.
Come hither to-morrow half an hour before I go to the council; and as you have judged well and wisely in this cause to-night, we will endeavour to judge leniently on any cause that you may bring before us to-morrow.
The errors of the successful in this world's race are leniently treated; it is only when we are unfortunate and our lives become failures that our friends turn their backs upon our misdeeds in righteous condemnation.
I am alive and well--Time has dealt leniently with me in that respect, if not in money matters.
My instructions to Mansur Helmi were to act leniently with the Arabs, but at the same time with such discretion that the interests of the Government should not suffer.
Time seems to have dealt leniently with the fair Charlotte, who appeared, according to Bassompierre, more beautiful than ever.
But be careful, or you may fall into the hands of those who will not deal with you as leniently as I have done.
Hitherto I have acted too leniently towards him, but now he shall feel my power.
Leniently as he was treated by his contemporaries, posterity has treated him more leniently still.
Well do I know, besides, that to my successes in life I can lay no claim in any merits or deservings of my own; that my shortcomings have been numerous, and lenientlydealt with.
One called me mad, and pitied me; another said I was a practised impostor, far too leniently dealt with; a third classed me with the vile herd of those who live by secret crimes, and hoped for some stringent act against such criminals.
Had the council been wise, it would have treated him as leniently as possible.
As a relapsed heretic, under the rules of the Inquisition, there was no mercy for him, but the rules were imperfectly understood in Germany, and again he was treated more leniently than the canons allowed, and was offered reconciliation.
It seems, however, that the Inquisitor administered his office fairly and even leniently in this case, for his judgments fell chiefly on the thieves who stole the personal effects of the viceroy during the sacking of the palace.
He might, therefore, have spoken leniently of Mrs. Greenlaw's sense of the dignity of her people, or been silent about the matter.
The father who had dealt so leniently and tenderly with his son on first hearing of his academic disgrace, never for an instant entertained a thought of compassing the prosecution of the author and printer of the scandalous tract.
Your son has been dealt leniently with, and has escaped death, but depend upon it, if you persist in injuring this estate, you will be made to pay heavily in purse.
A week," I repeated, "and you may consider yourself to have been very lenientlydealt with.
Sidenote: Typical Grievances] The testimony given before the Tweedmouth Committee, 1897, contains a number of incidents which show how leniently the Post Office Department is obliged to deal with men who violate the rules.
This is the notion of my unadvertised Encyclopaedia Britannica, and perhaps we ought to think of him lenientlyas Peter the Ferocious.
I hoped good things of Margaret, and though I could not regret her departure, I thought leniently of her faults, and resolved to forget them.
Besides, I have received a definite promise that, if caught, I shall be very leniently treated.
Now Macaulay has not always been leniently judged; but I do not think that, with the single exception of Croker's case, he can be accused of having borne hardly on the moral character of any one of his contemporaries.
She still rode her horse well, and time dealt very leniently with her.
I'm afraid I have done the village people injustice," she said leniently to Tembarom.
He was plainly taking in the characteristics of the room, and was not leniently disposed toward them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leniently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
