"Leniency" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hours, relating the origin of the Grass. Feeling much better afterwards, rang for Mrs H and told her merely to give K a leave of absence and discharge only the guilty undergardener. I could see she didnt approve my leniency. ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore
... political change, however fundamental, there must be no interference, but towards passion and malevolence tending to incite crime and insurrection under guise of political evolution there should be no leniency. Legislation to this end has been recommended by the Attorney General and should be enacted. In this direct connection, I would call your attention to my recommendations on August 8th, pointing out legislative measures which would be effective in controlling ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... without expressing my most sincere thanks to my critics and to the public for the leniency and consideration with which they have treated ...
— Erewhon • Samuel Butler
... seem to have kept his secret even from the publishers. Kinglake sent the article in proof to the lady; hoped that the facts he had imparted and the interpolations he had inserted would please her; he could have made the attack on Russia more pointed had he written it; she would think the leniency shows a fault on the right side; he did not know the writer of this latter part. He begged her to acquaint her friends in Moscow what an important and majestic organ is "The Quarterly," how weighty therefore its laudation ...
— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell
... had certainly retreated a long way from his original position. I did not wish to be expelled, and I hailed with satisfaction his manifestation of leniency; and rather than lose the advantages of the school, I was willing to submit to the nominal penalty at which he hinted, supposing it would be a deprivation ...
— Breaking Away - or The Fortunes of a Student • Oliver Optic
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