Taraza saw this mild warmth as a way into the heart of Odrade, a vulnerable opening.

I know what you think of me, Dar, with your mild warmth toward an old companion from school days.

I knew that ordinarily the Fool's body was cool, much cooler than an ordinary man's, so this mild warmth in him now was as a raging fever would be to me.

All it needed was a general, mild warmth, such as that provided by a clothed human body.

Pink fire remained in the sky, a mild and heady warmth in the air.

In the mild warmth of noon Bert let his boat carry him along.

The stars in the sky over nightbound Mars had their echo in the sands-piezoelectric flashes as the sizzle contracted from the day's mild warmth, sparkling like thousands of tiny fireflies.

The winter sky was clear, and there was no wind to dissipate the mild warmth of the sun.

Not the mild warmth of a thermite bomb-located in a spot-but the heat such as a minor sun might give.

Odrade, who allowed certain limited affections, "a mild warmth," she called them, argued that emotions provided valuable insights if you did not let them govern you.