Marcus Aurelius, though he did much to mitigate their horrors, yet in his writings condemns the monotony rather than the cruelty.
The next step was to mitigate the extreme severity of this composition by the introduction of a circular or other medallion within the square boundary lines.
They increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
But perhaps the most powerful of the causes which tend to mitigate the excesses of political association in the United States is universal suffrage.
But the federal government, which is not able to protect the Indians, would fainmitigate the hardships of their lot; and, with this intention, proposals have been made to transport them into more remote regions at the public cost.
If the same circumstances will atone in the least for the imperfections of what the editor has contributed to this edition, and will serve to mitigate the severity of judgment upon those contributions, it is all he can hope or ask.
No one but myself knows how to mitigate the blow to him.
Nay more, I will endeavor to mitigate the severity of Quintus' incarceration.
Nay, more; you must now, at once, make a last effort to mitigate the fate of Quintus Claudius.
But let it be your peculiar endeavour to watch over her grief and mitigate her pain.
But, my dear Sir, endeavour tomitigate my distressed mother's sorrow.
It is plain, however, that humanity could only partially mitigate the general distress, not altogether obviate it.
If wars are still frequent and destructive, much more has been done of late to mitigate the sufferings consequent upon armed conflicts.
His father's arguments would all fall to the ground if twenty-five thousand pounds were to be obtained in this way; and he had but little doubt that such a change in affairs would go far to mitigate his mother's wrath.
Perchance, were he to use his influence with that Prince, something might be done to mitigate the Dauphin's sternness.
He was so fond of outraging the feelings and invading the rights of the populace, that he seemed to indulge in it as a luxury; and no humility on their part could in the slightest degree mitigate his violence.
Being in great measure debarred from those vigorous and enjoyable exercises of body by which boys mitigatethe evils of excessive study, girls feel these evils in their full intensity.
The bestowal of so attractive Biblical names helps very little, however, to mitigate the unfavourable impression produced by the forbidding surroundings of these tiny oases almost lost in a seemingly illimitable desert.
Danforth had feared this movement in the savages, and it was to mitigate their wrath that he sought the encampment at so late an hour.
This will usually mitigate the severity of the spasmodic contraction of the affected muscles and lessen sensibility to pain.
Of all their avocations, this "mimickry of war" best fitted them to thwart the savages in their purpose, and to mitigate the horrors of their peculiar mode of warfare.
He only saw that she was troubled and anxious about that boat and its occupants, and he hastened to mitigate her anxiety.
Divide his attention, and you mitigate the intensity of his woes.
Even thus was it ordained by the first occupant of our present dignity[889], that the preceding plenty should avail to mitigate the present penury.
Our decision is that we will by our clemency mitigate the severity of your punishment.
These later letters refer chiefly to the terrible famine which followed in the train of the war, and of which Cassiodorus strenuously laboured to mitigate the severity.
And she was still desirable; he was still enthralled; he was still vain of her love; yet how was the flattery of one woman to mitigatefor a man the contempt of the crowd?
