Both Uses of
bland
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- In the blandest tones, he told me that he was going to build a small house for me, in a secluded place, four miles away from the town.†
Chpt 10 *
- Whereupon the young man came to me and said, in the blandest manner possible, "Will you please to seat the little girl in the chair, and stand behind it and feed her?†
Chpt 35
Definition:
dull or lacking stimulating characteristics -- especially in the flavor of food