milky-hearted

Updated: May 8, 2025

But though, under extreme provocation, the people of a man-of-war have been guilty of the maddest vengeance, yet, at other times, they are very placable and milky-hearted, even to those who may have outrageously abused them; many things in point might be related, but I forbear.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War