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... manner, was always ready for a fight, which he rather preferred to quietude, and had little disposition to spare an enemy. These were not conciliating qualities likely to temper the asperities of political warfare, and they may have provoked even Madison, mild-mannered and almost timid as he was, ...

— James Madison • Sydney Howard Gay

... then at the capital and found Count Ugo willing enough, though by no means eager, for the honour. He was, in fact, a mild-mannered gentleman of no great force of character, and frequently interrupted our conference to talk of a bowel-complaint which obviously meant more to him than all the internal complications of Europe: and next to his bowel-complaint—but some way after—he ...

— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine

... defenders of Jane Wenham and of the judge who released her were not hesitant in replying. A physician who did not sign his name directed crushing ridicule against the whole affair,[42] while a defender of Justice Powell considered the case in a mild-mannered fashion: he did not deny the possibility of witchcraft, but made a keen impeachment of the trustworthiness of the witnesses ...

— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

... because you aren't going to escape," she said. "But I appreciate the thought. You seem to be a very mild-mannered person, for...." ...

— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay

... she met at one of those delightful parties at Sir Joshua Reynolds's house in Leicester Square,—parties composed of the wisest and wittiest in English society of the day, though nowhere among the guests could there be found a man of more genuine worth or more brilliant genius than the mild-mannered host. Mrs. Horneck had been a noted beauty in her younger days, and she, as well as her two lovely daughters, had been painted by Sir Joshua. The elder daughter, Catherine (Goldsmith's "Little Comedy"), was ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay

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