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  • Die schwäbischen Vesperbilder heben sich durch ihre eher milde und lyrische Darstellung ... von denjenigen aus dem nordfränkisch-thüringischen Kreis ab, die in überlebensgrossem Format und mächtigem Pathos das Leiden betonen ....

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Anastasio having attentively heard all this discourse, his haire stood upright like Porcupines quils, and his soule was so shaken with the terror, that he stept backe to suffer the Knight to do what he was enjoyned, looking yet with milde commisseration on the poore woman.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Then rinsing their Glasses in the coole cleare running current, each tooke their mornings draught, and then walked into the milde shades about the Garden, untill they should bee summoned to dinner.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Amurath did so kindely comfort her with milde, modest, and manly perswasions, that all remembrance of Bajazeth was quickely forgotten, and shee became converted to lovely demeanor, even when

    The Decameron 2004

  • Wherefore, to prevent so blacke a scandall to your bright beauty, beside the ceaselesse acclamations, which will dog your walkes in the day time, and breake your quiet sleepes in the night season, with fearefull sights and gastly apparitions, hovering and haunting about your bed; let all these moove you to milde mercy, and spill not life, when you may save it.

    The Decameron 2004

  • All which availing nothing, she began to speake in a more milde and gentle straine, entreating him with flattering and affable words, to be governed in this case by his Tutors good advice.

    The Decameron 2004

  • But admit, that I were enclined unto a mercifull and compassionate minde, yet thou art none of them, on whome milde and gracious mercy should any way declare her effects.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Then did Buffalmaco shape his course in milde manner, toward

    The Decameron 2004

  • And (as before) after much kinde behaviour used towards the Lady, without any meanes in her selfe to redresse the least of all these great extremities, she became more milde and affable, for discontentment did not a jot quaile her.

    The Decameron 2004

  • And beholding one another with scarse-pleasing lookes, during all the time it was in discoursing, no sooner had he concluded: but with a few milde and gentle speeches, they gave him a modest reprehension, and meaning to let him know that such tales ought not to be tolde among women.

    The Decameron 2004

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