It was a bland day in early April and spring was looking at you round the corners.
She recalled the surprising dexterity with which he counted the coins, the peculiar smell of the bags, and her mother's bland exclamation, 'Eh, Ephraim!
There are human tempers, bland, glowing, and genial, within whose influence it is as good for the poor in spirit to live, as it is for the feeble in frame to bask in the glow of noon.
How bland, balmy, safe!
If you think a lad of thirteen would not have been so childish, you must be an exceptionally wise man, who, although you are devoted to a civil calling, requiring you to look bland rather than formidable, yet never, since you had a beard, threw yourself into a martial attitude, and frowned before the looking-glass.
And it was vexatious that Lawyer Gore was not more like him, but was a bald, round-featured man, with bland manners and fat hands; a game-cock that you would be rash to bet upon against Wakem.
Even the invisible powers, he thought, were likely to be soothed by a bland parenthesis here and there—coming from a man of property, who might have been as impious as others.
" said Rosamond, with bland neutrality.
Her south view, between these two stretches of sea, was another hill, higher than San Salvatore, the last of the little peninsula, with the bland turrets of a smaller and uninhabited castle on the top, on which the setting sun still shone when everything else was sunk in shadow.
If any one does"—Abel's voice was uncannily bland and polite—"I'll spatter the road with her brains.
You discuss bland topics and end the conversation with no real outcome.
Not putting enough salt in your dish will lead to a bland meal.
The most common mistakes his clients make are taking bad selfies with a webcam or picking flattering portraits that are 20 years out of date as well as writing bland personal statements, recounting a love of walks, reading the weekend papers and watching a DVD from the sofa.
But using a pair of electric chopsticks could help cut salt levels without leaving it tasting bland, said Dr Ranasinghe.
Try: Bland foods, such as rice, crackers, baked chicken and toast, are easy for the stomach to tolerate.
Fibre has the image of being this bland, boring stuff.
" "I know it may sound bland and boring, but this is the reality of a country that's built on respect and politeness," he laughs.
In the film, set in 2045, Wade Watts (a young man played by the agreeably bland, blandly agreeable Tye Sheridan) lives in "the stacks," a vertical pile of trailers where the poorer residents of Columbus, Ohio (Oklahoma City in the book), cling to hope, dignity and their VR gloves.
The shelves in convenience stores sell snacks that make their American counterparts seem timid and bland.
Broccoli Broccoli gets a lot of flak for being the bland food kids stay away from, but this under-appreciated vegetable has many nutrients the body needs, including folate, fiber, vitamins C and A and calcium.
