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Example sentences for "mellowed"

Lexicographically close words:
mella; mellay; melle; mellifluous; mellow; mellower; mellowing; mellowness; mellows; melly
  1. Siena was long ago mellowed to the pictorial tone; the operation of time is now to deposit shabbiness upon shabbiness.

  2. And from that he went away back into dim and distant yesterdays, alive with mellowed memories of boyhood days spent on a farm.

  3. Of his boyhood here Jean Paul in his last years set down some mellowed recollections.

  4. His magic wand was sound discretion coolly and firmly exercised, enlivened by a good humor and sprightliness that mellowed his otherwise stern qualities.

  5. In every thing he was chastened by sterling merit, actuated by magnanimity, mellowed by benevolence, purified by charity.

  6. How mellowed by the calm beauty of a summer evening, the one!

  7. There is the river, on which he has spent so many pleasant hours, calmly winding its way through deep green foliage mellowed by the moonlight.

  8. We trailed two herds past your ranch last summer, but the frost has mellowed up the soil and the grass has overgrown the paths until every trace is gone.

  9. The frost arose, the earth mellowed underfoot, and the creek purled and sang as it hastened along.

  10. It was something half way between Handel and mellowed thunder the way her grand contralto suddenly rolled out these three words.

  11. The exterior of San Ciriaco is of almost Eastern simplicity, but sun and wind have mellowed the dazzling white marbles of its walls to such gracious tints that it is like a perfect fruit ripened slowly to perfection through the centuries.

  12. His nature and his early trials made him not exactly sour, but shy, till age and prosperity mellowed him; but simplicity was his chief characteristic in age and youth alike.

  13. It is enough to remember the Castello, built of ruddiest brick, time-mellowed with how many centuries of sun and soft sea-air, as it appeared upon the close of one tempestuous day.

  14. Every square inch is covered with fresco or rich wood-work mellowed by time into that harmony of tints which blends the work of greater and lesser artists in one golden hue of brown.

  15. Time had mellowed the design and smoothed the once-sharp edges of the silver that rimmed the oval.

  16. Churches shouldn't be pretty--they should at least be fifty years old and mellowed into beauty.

  17. That tea and toast mellowed Alexander Abraham in spite of himself.

  18. His principles are mellowed and improved, without having become less sound with time: for at one period he sometimes appeared to come charged to the House with the petulance and caustic sententiousness he had imbibed at Wimbledon Common.

  19. The old house has picturesque gables and a tiled roof mellowed by age, with moss and lichen growing on it, and the windows are latticed.

  20. The building has high pointed gables and mullioned windows, a tiled roof mellowed with age, and a finely wrought vane, which is a credit to the skill of the local blacksmith.

  21. Here lindens and the sappy pine increased; 170 Here, when gay flowers his smiling orchard dressed, As many blossoms as the spring could show, So many dangling apples mellowed on the bough.

  22. First let the sprightly violin The joyful melody begin, And none of all her strings be mute; While the sharp sound and shriller lay 10 In sweet harmonious notes decay, Softened and mellowed by the flute.

  23. The time-mellowed stability of the place was one of its greatest charms.

  24. Then the expectant look mellowed into a smile.

  25. The little droop of sadness at its corners mellowed rather than took away from the sweetness of it.

  26. It was the same madcap, daredevil boy mellowed and strengthened by contact with the outside world.

  27. Thackeray exclaiming in his later and mellowed days.

  28. Together we descended the fine staircase, brilliantly lit by a huge chandelier of crystal and hung with large time-mellowed paintings, into a spacious hall, in which a footman with powdered hair awaited us.

  29. So haughty and violent a character might, one supposes, have been mellowed and redeemed by a fortunate marriage, and Thomas seems to have secured an angel as his wife.

  30. The building stands mellowed by the hand of Time, a memorial of the days of the old Italian Republics; and its counterpart existed in every Lombard city.

  31. The interior of the cathedral, by reason of the very decided black and white bands of marble, although mellowed with age, is not restful to the eye.

  32. The memories of that time, and of his first home, came back to him with a peculiar freshness and fragrance, like a painting by one of the old masters, perfect in design, and with its deep rich coloring softened and mellowed by age.

  33. Its artistic expression is found in no work of modern genius, but in the mediaeval cathedral, which, mellowed but not impaired by time, still gazes on us in its deathless beauty through the centuries of the past.

  34. They called these questions symposiacae, as being well fitted to stimulate minds already mellowed by wine.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mellowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aged; developed; mature; mellow; ripe; seasoned; subdued; tempered; vintage