As Hatfield divined Orlick's intentions, a savage joy stirred within him and mitigated the torture of a shattered arm and other bodily wounds.
Thus, with these hurtful thoughts whirling through his brain, Lem forgot in a measure, which mitigatedthe dejection and chagrin imposed by his terrible predicament.
The hatred with which he had entered Trinity had, in his four years of graduation, been mitigated .
His thick eyebrows clung closely to his eyes, and gave him a look of introspection that mitigated the shrewdness of his pointing nose.
There were times, indeed, when he felt a mitigated joy in writing because his ideas were fluent and words fell easily off his pen, but even on those occasions, the labour of writing hurt him and exhausted him.
One is that punishment should be mitigated in accordance with the lawgiver's intention, although not according to the letter of the law; and in this respect it pertains to equity.
Besides, she had eaten and drunk since then, and the profoundest philosophers have always frankly admitted that the pessimistic side of human nature is greatly mitigated after a good dinner.
Only one slight piece of malice (in the mitigated French sense) may be permitted.
Saint Bartholomew and after Sainte-Guillotine, the sentence may be mitigatedto "Not here consummately.
The day was very sultry;--but the upper part of the barouche was now thrown open; and the speed at which they travelled, created a current of air that mitigated the intensity of the heat.
Indeed, the accounts were purposely mitigated in order to alarm him as little as possible; and on his arrival at Lord Ellingham’s mansion in Pall Mall, he found Mr. Hatfield confined to his bed.
Stillford had always been lukewarm; Irons was fluttering round Lynborough’s flame; Wenman might still be hers--but an isolation mitigated only by Colonel Wenman seemed an isolation not mitigated in the least.
She was looking very attractive to-day; her perplexity and worry seemed to soften her; an unwonted air of appeal mitigated her assurance of manner; she was pleasanter when she was not so confident of herself.
Whatever regret Franklin may have felt at not being able to remain in England was probably greatly mitigated if not entirely dissipated by the cordial reception which he met with at home.
Note 12: Franklin's animosity against the Penns wasmitigated in later years.
Need ofmitigated certificates and of intermediate asylums for certain cases of mental disturbance, 168.
We add this because, although the certificates are mitigated in their case, and they are not accounted lunatics, yet we regard that degree of visitation by the Commissioners, indicated by Lord Shaftesbury, to be in every way desirable.
At two o'clock pursued our journey, under an extreme heat of 92 degrees, which was hardly mitigated by the gentle fanning of a slight S.
On entering the water, the disagreeable sensation seemed to be mitigated for a time, only to be augmented on our return to the atmosphere.
He also promised him money, and that he would deliver up both himself and the city into his disposal, and thereby mitigated the anger of Pompey.
There is certainly a poetic if not a religious grace in the swinging censer and its curling fumes; and I think the perfume, as it steals mitigated to your nostrils, out of the open church door, is the reverendest smell in the world.
This indignation is not likely to be mitigated by what he will there find.
Joy there was, but, alas, how much mitigatedwas its fervency!
This punishment is mitigated by the prohibition to slay him forthwith after the commission of the murderous deed, a law providing for the punishment of murderers which was reserved for a later day.
To forfeit the promise was no trifle; still, even that curse was so mitigated as to secure for them the privilege of beggars, so that heaven was not absolutely denied them, provided they allied themselves with the true Church.
If the rigor of the confinement of Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky) at Alton is endangering his life, or materially impairing his health, I wish it mitigated as far as it can be consistently with his safe detention.
The subterranean power, on the contrary, displays, even in its most energetic efforts, an intermittent andmitigated intensity.
The severity of this law was somewhat mitigated by Constantius, but he still made it a capital offence.
Many of the restrictions on marriage that are found in subsequent ages, under the feudal system, had their origin in this principle, because indeed the vassal, in feudal times, was but a slave under a more loose dominion in a mitigated form.
Some of the worst abuses of the English law were mitigated by the perjuries of juries who refused to put them in force.
To the romantic lover the disappointment was all the more severe, because he had made so sure of the young lady's affection; nor was it mitigated by the mode in which Miss Jennings conveyed her declinature.
The horrors thus mitigated have become more than ever repugnant to the educated perception of Christendom, because of the merciful devotion which, ever toiling to lessen them, keeps them before the world's eye.
Unhealthy and impure conditions of life may be mitigated by wise legislation, temptations to vice may be removed, and vested interests that thrive on the degradation of human lives may be crushed by the strong arm of the community.
The carrying away of the Judaean king and aristocracy was a heavy blow to religious susceptibilities which Ezekiel fully shared, and its severity was not mitigated by the arrogant assumptions by which it was explained in Jerusalem.
Their common Hispano-American nationality no more checks aggressive displays of enmity than a common Tuscan origin mitigated the strife of Florence and Siena, or a common Boeotian origin the hatred of Thebes and Plataea.
Diseases contracted from the whites had reduced its numbers and sapped its strength, while peaceful intercourse with the colonists had mitigated the ancient animosity.
The inconveniences of this monstrous system, devised in the interests of a group of Spanish traders, were mitigated by the smuggling into Buenos Aires, which was carried on by means of English and Dutch ships.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mitigated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: conditioned; limited; modified; qualified; restricted; seasoned; softened; tempered
