That which diffused a blander atmosphere than steam or radiator, register and hearth, however, was the kind will, the benevolent intelligence, which imagined us, and which would not then let us go.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
Yet nothing could be blander than the demeanour of the Abbe Montreuil; nothing more worldly, in their urbanity, than his manner and address.
"Devereux, Book I."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Oh, Mr. Damer," she said, and as she spoke her smile became almost blander than it was before; "oh, Mr. Damer, I could not think of suffering you to be so liberal; I could not, indeed.
"An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids"
Anthony Trollope