Mrs. Elmore grew still meeker under this irony.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
She waited for his contrition, but proceeded without it, in a somewhat meeker strain: "Lily couldn't get her things at Pazienti's, and we had to go to the Merceria for them.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
But Great-grandfather forbade her to, and I guess she must have been meeker than women are now, just as Great-grandfather was stricter."
"Ethel Morton at Chautauqua"
Mabell S. C. Smith