Glenn brought her warm water, a mitigating circumstance.
But the sleet storm passed, the clouds broke, the sun shone through, greatly mitigating her discomfort.
I do not allude to this as mitigating in any degree this offense against law and humanity, but only as affecting the international questions which grew out of it.
The Clerigo found his remonstrances and appeals to his own nominally Christian fellow-countrymen wholly ineffectual in restraining or even mitigating the oppressions and cruelties inflicted upon the wretched natives.
Some tremor of pity for her entered into my consciousness, without mitigating greatly the wildness of my resentment, of my forebodings.
He had respected, perhaps partly imagined her feelings, and in spite of these now a sense of gratitude to him stole over her, mitigating the intensity of their bitterness.
If the wound is not of itself mortal and it has only become so from improper treatment, this should be a mitigating circumstance in favor of the accused.
If violence has been employed it is responsible for the rupture, though the diseased condition may act as a mitigating circumstance; not so a distended bladder, as the latter is not abnormal.
All who have used your Inhaler must be thankful that you have been directed by a gracious God to a means of mitigating such severe suffering.
As drawn up by the new President, they contained at least a few hints to his Majesty as to the propriety of mitigating the edicts and extending some mercy to his suffering people.
These mitigating circumstances may be brought to bear on the Commander-in-Chief, and may be embodied in a recommendation to mercy!
Some mitigating circumstance may generally be pleaded against the adverse verdict of history in its estimation of a public character.
How great the national suffering had become was shown by the marked increase of crime, especially all forms of theft and the coining of false money, for which new and severe penalties were ordained without greatly mitigating the evil.
The young gentleman waited her return, and Rachel acquitted herself of her task, mitigating the severity of a refusal, by assuring him how grateful her Lady felt for his politeness.
Clarke, who had a keen look out after comfort in the most comfortable sense of that snuggest of English words, had made the most careful provision for mitigating the desagremens incident to our situation.
After much experience in these methods of mitigating and abridging the chills of intermittent fever, I feel entitled to say that, whether the objects be achieved or not, no injurious consequences ensue.
Among recent drugs, yerba santa (Eryodiction glutinosum) and the oil of eucalyptus are of use in mitigating the symptoms in epidemic catarrh, as they do in certain forms of simple sporadic catarrh.
In the glowing sun of the Campagna and in the bewildering magic powers of the vine which grows on Vesuvius, our author has introduced helpful and mitigating circumstances of the transgression of the hero.
Chapter XVI: Causes Mitigating Tyranny In The United States--Part I Chapter Summary The national majority does not pretend to conduct all business--Is obliged to employ the town and county magistrates to execute its supreme decisions.
Salmasius, however, pleading by commission from Charles's son, can urge no such mitigating plea.
The prayers of cockering mothers prevailed with him as much as the requests of indulgent fathers, rather increasing than mitigating his severity on their offending children.
What she told of Mayer's conduct was true, but she did not tell what to her was a mitigating circumstance--the counter-attraction of Chrystie.
Others might see in that a mitigating circumstance but not the man who valued her above all girls, rich or poor.
There was a mitigating circumstance--he had never dreamed of their having a carriage.
A quickened and more enlightened zeal has been shown in providing for the infirm and helpless, and for mitigating the sufferings of the soldier.
By an act of parliament a loan of eight millions sterling was contracted by government for the purpose of mitigating the wants of Ireland.
Much confidence was placed by the public in the integrity and talents of Lord Durham, and an attempt was made to induce the ministers to embrace this opportunity of mitigating the cruel fate which hung over the unhappy Poles.
His lordship considered this to be an encouragement to proceed in their course of mitigating the punishment, and particularly for doing away with it in the two reserved cases in forgery.
In many cases it has been very effective in mitigating the distress which sudden death so often entails on survivors.
Referring to his early desires in this direction, he thus wrote in later years: "I was cogitating methods, even at that early age, for mitigating the feuds and dissensions of Christians.
It had the effect of mitigating the dogmatical and speculative tendencies of the mind, and the extravagant attempt to prove everything by means of conceptions of the understanding.
But sometimes I have fancied that in Mr. Morton's case there might be peculiarly mitigating circumstances.
And you think that would be a mitigating circumstance in his acceptance of money from her?
Napoleon had given me his confidence, and by mitigating the verity of his orders I served him better than they who executed them in a way which could not fail to render the French Government odious.
I never let slip an opportunity of mitigating the rigour of Fouche's orders, which, indeed, were sometimes so absurd that I did not attempt to execute them.
