If the inactivity continued long enough, it would result in a fairly mild climate in high latitudes, though so long as the continents were emergent this mildness would not be of the extreme type.
Turn to Table 1 and see how a glacial climate again and again succeeds a time when relative mildness prevailed almost everywhere.
And Count Schwarzenberg was very rich, and the citizens were very poor, but still the count had never once practiced mildness and mercy, and relieved the poor cities of their taxes and imposts, or given of his wealth to their poverty.
But Podbipienta contracted his eyes and spoke with the mildness usual to him: "An outrage to hear!
The day was pale, but pleasant with that melancholy mildness of autumn full of sweetness.
Frequently potatoes are here being eaten before the green tops are above ground in England, which is another proof of the mildness of the climate.
Quite a list of plants might here be appended to shew the degree of mildness experienced in the Channel Islands.
And Marianne was in spirits; happy in the mildness of the weather, and still happier in her expectation of a frost.
In another day or two perhaps; this extreme mildness can hardly last longer--nay, perhaps it may freeze tonight!
He replied with his accustomary mildness to all her inquiries, but without satisfying her in any.
It pieced itself together for her that this was the mildness of general indifference, a source of profit so great for herself personally that if the Countess was the author of it she was prepared literally to hug the Countess.
Her ladyship had dropped to a mildness of irony by which, for a moment, poor Maisie was mystified and charmed, puzzled with a glimpse of something that in all the years had at intervals peeped out.
Rough rigour looks out right, and still prevails: Smooth mildness looks too many ways to thrive.
The Psalmist says the very same thing in a few words: Mildnessis come upon us, and we shall be corrected.
Mildness is come upon us, says the Royal Psalmist, and we shall be corrected.
He was disposed to letmildness rule, and spare the Jew this time--but only on one condition.
The mildness awakened by Adam's story had all vanished to the winds.
And in proof of this Chichikov cited the purses which the Governor knitted, and also expatiated on the mildness of his features.
We shall win him over to God and St. Peter more surely by mildness and reason than by strictness or severity.
If he resembled John in the mildness of his language, he resembled Paul in the strength of his doctrine.
They surrounded the tribunal, and seemed to hear with respect an oration full of mildness and dignity when one of the Barbarians, casting his shoe into the air, exclaimed with a loud voice, Marha!
Grotius was a republican and an exile, but the mildness of his temper inclined him to support the established powers.
But his artful and cruel favorites studied to deceive and exasperate a prince, whose natural mildness cannot be praised without some efforts of adulation.
In his face Mr. Runnington beheld no longer the melancholy mildness to which he had been accustomed, but a sternness and power were apparent in his features, which Mr. Runnington had not imagined them capable of exhibiting.
What cause of thankfulness had he not, for the merciful mildness of even the dispensations of Providence towards him?
Egypt; but it is at the same time enough to prove the mildness of his government.
When Marcus arrived in Alexandria the citizens were agreeably surprised by the mildness of his conduct.
To his companion there was now no inspiration in the moonlight, no sweetness in the unusual mildness of the air.
Above all, the mildness of the air, full of the alluring witchery of a false spring, affected the imagination like a delicate, ethereal wine.
One of the most remarkable instances of the mildness of your climate is the unusually early appearance of frog's spawn: this I observed at Gulval on the 8th of January.
Nor is the animal kingdom deficient in proofs of the congenial mildness of western Cornwall.
Amongst the rare indigenous plants of this district, the Sibthorpia Europæa may be particularised as affording a remarkable proof of the mildness of our winter.
Proofs of superiormildness from the animal kingdom, 9.
The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity.
Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working.
The mildness was perhaps due to his bolt-upright shock of frightened-looking sandy hair, the ferocity to the pince-nez marks on either side of his nose that gave his glance a concentrated look.
He was a small, bearded, wiry man of forty-four or five, who gave you a curious impression of ferocity and mildness mingled.
And this claim of ours is rendered manifest by the mildness of the penalty to which the Canon was condemned, namely, that of three years' banishment.
And one can well understand that all proof was lacking during the prosecution from the mildness of the penalty inflicted, which does not at all correspond with the gravity of the crime charged.
Arguing from the comparativemildness of Montmorency in the persecutions under Henry II.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mildness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
