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Sentences starting with gentle

Gentle words and diplomacy--those are the tools to work with. [5]

Sentences ending with gentle

My wife was young, beautiful, loving, and oh, so divinely good and blameless and gentle! [5]
Indeed, people seemed to grow more good with one so unselfish and so gentle. [4]
I wouldn't have thought, to look at the man, that he could have been so gentle. [9]
It was in the height of summer, when there was little to think of in the old fortressed city, and a dart after a brigand appealed to the romantic natures of the idle French folk, common and gentle. [11]
There was no sentimentalism in it, only straightforward feeling, forceful, yet gentle. [11]
Lying in bed, patient, gentle. [6]
Perhaps the death of his beloved wife might render her father's mood more gentle. [10]
Barop afterwards told me that he was frequently compelled to urge us to be more gentle. [10]
He turned to her with a hard look; then, as he met her soft, fearless, beautiful eyes, his own grew gentle. [11]
He turned to her now with a movement that was almost gentle. [9]

Short sentences using gentle

O gentle King, rouse! [5]
Poor, dear, gentle lady! [4]
Am I not gentle? [6]
Where was the gentle Lassiter? [13]
Gentle, but languid and despondent. [6]
Oh, gentle judge! [5]

Sentences containing gentle two or more times

Eseldorf had its proportion of such people, and ordinarily their good and gentle influence was felt, but these were not ordinary times--on account of the witch-dread--and so we did not seem to have any gentle and compassionate hearts left, to speak of. [5]

More example sentences with the word gentle in them

To my mad youth her gentle surveillance Was like a watch-fire on a rock-bound coast. [11]
Is swording then your dearest vice that you must urge it on a harmless gentle man, and my visitor? [11]
Now, I tell you what, my gentle spy, if your business hath not concern, I'll stretch you by your fingers there to our public gallows, and my fellows shall fill you with small shot as full as a pod of peas. [11]
I'll talk with you tomorrow, and am I not right, Jungfrau Elsyou won't make him suffer for losing the wager, but exercise your domestic authority after a more gentle fashion? [10]
And Davy, did you mark the gentle, rounded arm? [9]
It was sacred, yet it was not solemn; peaceful, yet not sombre; rather gentle, aspiring, and clear. [11]
Charley said he would go with me,--Charley, my Captain's beloved friend, gentle, but full of spirit and liveliness, cultivated, social, affectionate, a good talker, a most agreeable letter-writer, observing, with large relish of life, and keen sense of humor. [6]
Her quiet, gentle words, few though they might be, were evidently grateful to those Yorkshire ears. [14]
No gentle, tender-hearted woman laughed like that; but she was grand, splendid, wonderful in her wrath. [10]
His name is Wolf Hartschwert, and he is as gentle as a lamb and as pliant as a young willow. [10]
I grant you, without the slightest unwillingness, that they were a deal more gentle and merciful and just than were the people of Europe of that day; I grant you that they are better than their predecessors. [5]
His eyes filled with tears, and he bent as tenderly as a father might over the pale face, and pressed a gentle kiss on the bloodless lips of the senseless youth. [10]
Paulus soothed him with gentle words, and told him of the errand on which he had sent the lad to the farther coast of the sea. [10]
I do not wish it, Monsieur Doltaire, because hanging is a shameful death, and he is a gentle man, not a ruffian. [11]
Alert, gentle, smiling, winning young brown creature as ever was. [5]
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad. [5]
Shall I starve whom I love, to win a gentle death? [5]
Mr. Reginald Farwell, who was there, afterwards declared that she seemed to have stepped out of the gentle landscape of an old painting. [9]
Just her age who was so gentle, and lovely, and all the world to me, and whom I shall never see again! [5]
Even Mrs. Waring, who resembled a Roman matron, with her wavy white hair parted in the middle and her gentle yet classic features, sighed secretly at times at the unyielding attitude of her husband, although admiring him for it. [9]
This it was which made him invulnerable amidst all the fierce conflicts his gentle words excited. [6]
In the tablinum, which had been converted into a sick-room, nothing was heard but the breathing and gentle snoring of the sleeping man. [10]
Many a time when he had been asleep, with gentle fingers she had caressed his hands, his head, his face; but that did not count, because he did not know. [11]
The occasional voices were not given to much speaking--you simply heard a gentle ejaculation of "Ow! [5]
But his ways were gentle, and his speech was soft and persuasive. [5]
The blind eyes were closed, but those who gazed on her felt that, if open, they would shine with the gentle light of stars. [10]
During his first weeks of pain and weakness, Ruth was unceasing in her ministrations; she quietly took charge of him, and with a gentle firmness resisted all attempts of Alice or any one else to share to any great extent the burden with her. [5]
Remembering where I was, I expressed myself in terms that were gentle though austere regarding the King, and reproved the supineness and stupidity of the Crown Prince. [11]
Here the land was rugged and bold, while farther on it became gentle and spacious, and was flecked or striped with farms on which low, white houses with dormer-windows and big stoops flashed to the passer-by the message of the pioneer, "It is mine. [11]
Yet surely it was not his fault that Daphne's features bore the impress of that gentle, winning kindness which he himself and Soteles, imitating him, had often condemned as weak and characterless. [10]
Even while he was flying to her, her gentle spirit might have gone on another flight, whither he could not follow her. [5]
To Louis she was ever the same, affectionate, gentle, and unselfish; but her stronger soul ruled him without his knowledge, commanded his perturbed spirit into the abstracted quiet and bitter silence wherein he lived, and which she sought to cheer by a thousand happy devices. [11]
And yet he was always such a gentle soul! [8]
If ever there was a gentle spirit that thought itself unfired gunpowder and latent ruin, it is Conrad Wiegand. [5]
The tides of wakening consciousness roll in upon them daily as we unclose our eyelids, and keep up the gentle movement and murmur of ordinary mental respiration until we close them again in slumber. [6]
The dwarf was very much exasperated, and wanting somebody to wreak his ill-humour upon, determined to dart out suddenly, and favour Mrs Quilp with a gentle acknowledgment of her attention in making that hideous uproar. [12]
Many blondes are very gentle, yielding in character, impressible, unelastic. [6]
Mr. Norton was very gentle in what he had to say, and almost delicate, and he said: "Mr. Clemens, I have been spending some time with Mr. Darwin in England, and I should like to tell you something connected with that visit. [5]
She had taken up the tongs that hung by it, and was about to put it out, when she heard a gentle tap at the house-door. [10]
As she lingered unobserved, her eye rested on the touching picture of the two young things clasped in each other's arms, and she overheard the last words of the gentle little creature who had done her such cruel wrong. [10]
The gentle but unmistakable pressure of her hand he interpreted as the pinning on him of the badge of her faith. [9]
Then a better understanding came upon him, and it made him gentle with her. [11]
Shon did not understand it, but he saw The Honourable smile, so with a gentle kind of contempt he went on singing: "And it's hey for the hedge, and it's hey for the wall! [11]
In short, he undergoes a process of gentle and gradual starvation. [6]
We crept in under Jim's bed and into the cabin, and pawed around and found the candle and lit it, and stood over Jim awhile, and found him looking hearty and healthy, and then we woke him up gentle and gradual. [5]
Princess Mary had turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, rested on Prince Andrew's face. [2]
I have always tried to be gentle with the most hopeless cases. [6]
During the night too, she had prayed fervently that the Lord might graciously draw to himself this lovely, gentle creature, that He might permit her to recover, and fill her soul with the same love for the Saviour that gave joy to her own. [10]
Shall I go to the Khedive and say that this night Mustapha Bey, eldest and chosen son of Selamlik Pasha, the darling of his fat heart, was seized by the Chief Eunuch, the gentle Mizraim, in the harem of his Highness? [11]
It was easy to see that he was a gentle creature and that his madness had nothing vicious in it. [5]
Then he appeared to remember himself, and turned away with a gentle remonstrance of his head, and entered the hut behind him. [11]
My wife said to me that she was reminded of the gentle observation of Carmen Eschelle, "The people I cannot stand are those who pretend they are not wicked. [4]
Instead of continuing to listen to the Greek sentences which Herr Wilibald Pirckheimer was reading aloud to the others, he could not help thinking of the pious, gentle little woman who, with her cheerful kindness, so well understood how to comfort and to sustain courage. [10]
With every desire to do justice to the pretty town of Oswego, which lies on a gentle slope by the lake, it had to them an out-of-doors, unprotected, remote aspect. [4]
He said good-by to Bess in a voice gentle and somewhat broken, and turned hurriedly away. [13]
Appeal to _me_ to be gentle, to be fair, to be generous? [5]
This was partly through his winning and gentle ways, but mainly through the amazing familiarity with my books which his conversation showed. [5]
Maria's gentle and thoughtful nature exerted a beneficial influence upon her, and she cheerfully welcomed Barbara, with her fresh face and simple, careful, helpful ways. [10]
The same gentle, thoughtful faces, the same cheerful but reverential spirit, the same quiet, the same life of active benevolence. [6]
You must listen though, for this low, sweet slumber-song must only leave the lips like a gentle wind. [10]
The magistrate was thoroughly aware of the course of affairs, and talked to the maid with the gentle manner, pervaded with genuine kindness of heart, which was one of his characteristics. [10]
He came here this afternoon, as gentle as ever, and packed up his things, and said he was goin' away because you was worried. [9]
But now that they were facing the business of their journey, his voice got soft and gentle, as it did before the Fort, when he grappled his foes two by two and three by three, and wrung them out. [11]
Large, brilliant, gentle, they had now also a bewildered look, which even the rough old soldier saw. [11]
But just then there whistled through the larrup of sound a clear voice callin', gentle and coaxin', yet commandin' too; and the spears dropped, and the pounding of horsehoofs ceased, and then the army marched away; far away; iver so far away, into--" "Into Heaven! [11]
And there sat the young creature, whom she knew to be soft-hearted and gentle, smiling and with beaming eyes--though those eyes must have rested on the most hideous spectacle--looking as though the roll in her lap were the first enchanting raptures of a lover. [10]
For, in fact, the woman's face was well-favored, gentle, and attractive. [10]
She was grasping the truth, when suddenly there came, in inward constriction, a hardening of gentle forces within her breast. [13]
When each of the three had a share, the old man raised his long arm solemnly, and said in a tone so gentle that the others hardly recognised his voice: "To a lost comrade! [11]
Exquisitely, reverently, as the story was told, it had in it the, touch of quaint and gentle humor which could only have been given to it by Mark Twain. [5]
It was but the pity of her gentle heart, of a romantic nature. [11]
If you prefer the long jolting of public opinion to the gentle touch of friendship, try it like a man. [6]
Now no more the kettle-drum and the ceaseless promenade in showy corridors, but the oaten pipe under the spreading maples, the sheep feeding on the gentle hills of Otsego, the carnival of the hop-pickers. [4]
Henry, the gentle, the humane, said: "I feel ever so sorry for it, don't you, Joe? [5]
The face under the heavy coils of brown hair was sweet and gentle, delicately feminine. [9]
I was of the greater height and stouter build, while she was more slender and supple; and for gentle sweetness I have never seen her like. [10]
Nothing stirred except the gentle wave of the tips of the brush. [13]
The former think the gentle nuns treat you too indulgently, and the latter charge the zealous followers of St. Domingo with too much strictness concerning you. [10]
No passion in the face, no avarice, no anxiety, no wild desire; all gentle, tranquil, and at peace. [12]
One who saw the Duke of Wellington in his last years describes him as very gentle in his aspect and demeanor. [6]
The dread of the coming lash after the gentle word will start any horse. [4]
In the marshes the cat-tails and the faint flush of color on the alders and soft maples gave a character to the low shore, and the gentle rise of the hills from the water's edge combined to make a sweet and peaceful landscape. [4]
The sight of the battlefield had seemed unendurable to the gentle nature of Middendorf he had formed a poetical idea of the campaign as an expedition against the hereditary foe. [10]
Woman is all that she should be gentle, patient, longsuffering, trustful, unselfish, full of generous impulses. [5]
The gentle smile that she liked, which made of him another person, slowly overspread his face. [13]
His aspect was that of one of gentle birth. [6]
She felt sure that her mother must have been a lovely, gentle woman. [6]
It was this that broke gentle Miss Forsythe's heart when she came fully to realize it. [4]
You were so tender, yet so strong, So gentle, yet so free, Your every word, whenever heard, Seemed wondrous wise to me. [11]
Now I must tell my gentle poet good-bye, for I have a letter to write home before I go to bed. [6]
There was a tearful silence, but it was not long before she looked upon him with a smile, and promised him, in a very gentle, quiet voice, that she would stay, and be his friend, as long as Heaven would let her. [12]
Be gentle, be sweet, smile like an idiot--just be natural. [5]
The meadows were sweet with the newly cut grass, the wind softly blew down the river, large white clouds sailed high overhead and cast shadows on the changing water; but to all these gentle influences the fish were insensible, and sulked in their cool retreats. [4]
It needed this support less on account of the road, than for the sake of a graveyard, for which the citizens of the neighboring borough used the gentle slope of the mountain. [10]
Moreover, she had suddenly grasped the fact that the gentle but persistently strong influence of the son's character had brought about the change in the father. [9]
In substance the storiette was as follows: John Brown, aged thirty-one, good, gentle, bashful, timid, lived in a quiet village in Missouri. [5]
His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh. [5]
Yet when she stood in the church by the side of the open coffin she gazed long at the gentle face of the quiet sufferer, charming even in death, who on her bright couch seemed dreaming in a light slumber. [10]
Nancy--was it Nancy?--was standing facing me, tall, superb in the maturity of her beauty, with one hand resting on an antique table, a smile upon her lips, a gentle mockery in her eyes as though laughing at the world she adorned. [9]
And if I spoke with sadness and with fear; If from your gentle coldness I drew back, And felt that I had lost the flowery track That led to peace in Love's sweet atmosphere: It was because a woful dread possessed. [11]

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