"Mansuetude" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... eating apples in school-time, for which he had been often rebuked. One day, having particularly pleased the master, the latter, who was eating apples himself, and who would now and then with great ostentation present a boy with some half-penny token of his mansuetude, called out to his favorite of the moment: "Le Grice, here is an apple for you." Le Grice, who felt his dignity hurt as a Grecian, but was more pleased at having this opportunity of mortifying his reprover, replied, with an exquisite tranquillity of assurance, ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... to meet the dawn, Miltoun was bathing in those waters of mansuetude and truth which roll from wall to wall in the British ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy |
