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Sentences starting with gently

Gently disengaging himself, the prince spurred his horse and rode down the avenue at a gallop. [2]
Gently she released her hands, and she did not answer at once. [9]
Gently she released her hand, and folded up the bundle again and gave it to him. [9]
Gently he laid her back. [13]

Sentences ending with gently

But she forth with added more gently. [10]
Perhaps, after a while, you may come to feel differently --I didn't mean to startle you," she heard him reply gently. [9]
Then he turned toward Virginia, thoughtfully pulled his goatee, and laughed gently. [9]
The Vicomtesse began to speak again, evenly, gently. [9]
Nay, she appealed to me many times a day to know whether she had made any mistakes, and I began to drill her in my silly traditions,--gently, very gently. [9]
He sat up to listen, and it seemed as if some one called to him gently. [10]
Not knowing what to do, he tucked in the bedclothes gently. [11]
Suddenly realizing that they were standing in the light, that people were passing to and fro over the end of the bridge, she drew away from him once more, this time more gently. [9]
The two sat there, the man half-kneeling on the low bed, and stroking the fur very gently. [11]
She went to the berth where he lay, the reflected light from without playing weirdly on his face, and smoothed the pillow gently. [11]

Short sentences using gently

Tom gently put it back. [5]
I kissed her gently. [9]
He touched him gently. [11]
The road wound gently downward. [12]
She drew it gently away. [9]
He rapped gently. [5]
Pierre smiled gently. [11]

Sentences containing gently two or more times

They picked her up and flung her around like nothing and landed her gently on the solid, smooth bottom of sand--so gently, indeed, that we barely felt her touch it, barely felt her quiver when she came to a standstill. [5]
Gently, gently, my friend Publius, for I feel as if all my limbs were made of Phoenician glass, and might break at the least touch. [10]
To be gently born was the one thing needful, and Michel de la Foret was gently born; and he had still his sword, though he chose not to use it in Elizabeth's service. [11]

More example sentences with the word gently in them

To Clemens he wrote: "You have touched me in regard to him, and I will deal gently with his poetry. [5]
He swayed and would have fallen, but Madelinette caught him, helped him to the sofa, and, forcing him gently down on his side, adjusted a pillow for him, and turned to the wounded man again. [11]
She spoke no word, but gently undid the other's hair, and smoothed and brushed it softly. [11]
She sat there with the zithern, letting her fingers glide gently over the strings. [10]
Aunt Kate sat with her feet on a hassock, rocking gently and watching and listening. [11]
The, stout woman, who had been looking on with that intensity of sympathy of which the poor are capable, began waving gently the palm-leaf fan. [9]
I remember with what feeling I one day unexpectedly read on a white slab, in the little inclosure of Bonchurch, where the sea whispered as gently as the rustle of the ivy-leaves, the name of John Sterling. [4]
If the theme were hackneyed, I should be obliged to deal gently with the reader; but since it is wholly new, I have felt at liberty to take up a considerable degree of room with it. [5]
We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall. [6]
He had been well provided for by her husband, and General Armour put his hand on hers gently and said: "Lali, without your permission I have read this other letter. [11]
He began his weird, wild love-song, but soon felt that he was cold, and as he reached back for his blanket, some unseen hand laid it gently on his shoulders; it was the hand of his love, his guardian angel. [5]
Within the Hellespont we saw where the original first shoddy contract mentioned in history was carried out, and the "parties of the second part" gently rebuked by Xerxes. [5]
And besides she was sure they wanted her up stairs by this time, and she must go, indeed-- 'No, but Barbara,' said Kit, detaining her gently, 'let us part friends. [12]
Cousin Maud, who was ever wont to mount the stair with an echoing tread and a loud voice, now went about stepping softly in her shoes, and when she called or spoke it was gently and scarce to be heard. [10]
The State House was a building with much pretension to beauty, built in the classical style, of a yellow stone, with sold white blinds in the high windows and mighty columns capped at the gently slanting roof. [9]
She lay down, very gently, and, with a quiet smile upon her face, fell into a slumber. [12]
The criticism was very gently worded, and the dispatch closed with a somewhat guarded paragraph repeating the government's approbation. [6]
And finally when ushers come and plead, and beg, and gently and reverently crowd them down into their seats, they say, "Oh, I'm not tired--I could bang along a week! [5]
Still gently chaffing us, he pushed ahead, up the trail, and soon disappeared. [5]
We declined, gently urging the duty and pleasure of staying with her, who was now so dear and so feeble. [14]
Again he gently urged the food upon her, and she took a little; but now and then she put her hand to her side as if in pain. [11]
The sight of two gold pieces made the thing possible in the landlord's eyes, and Madame Marie urged no more, but found some refreshment, of which she gently insisted that Madelinette should partake. [11]
He stated a truth, and did it in such a pleasant way, and salved over my sore spot so gently and so healingly, that I was rather glad I had committed the crime, far the sake of the letter. [5]
Arrived at the tree, or fence, or other henroost (your own if you are an idiot), you warm the end of your plank in your friend's fire vessel, and then raise it aloft and ease it up gently against a slumbering chicken's foot. [5]
He was a traveler, passing through; and he spoke to her gently, and, seeing nobody but me there to hear, said he was sorry for her. [5]
Next I gently touched up the newest stranger--the lion of the day, the gorgeous journeyman tailor from Quincy. [5]
You could not touch your eye more gently than the good woman handles Selene's foot. [10]
Then the Colonel took me by the arms, as gently as a woman might, set me down on the ground beside him, and taking a spoonful of the hominy forced it between my lips. [9]
Hamilton gently attempted to undervalue their testimony, but he was instantly put down by the Dutch justice, who suggested that Mr. Hamilton could not be aware of the age of the witnesses. [4]
He led her to the window-seat and gently disengaged her hands from his shoulders and took one of them and held it between his own. [9]
Presently I drew to the trap-door of my loft, and, raising it gently, came down the ladder to the little hallway, and softly opened the door of the room where Labrouk's body lay. [11]
My plan was to speak gently to the horse, requesting him to go, and then to follow the refusal by one sudden, sharp cut of the lash; to wait a moment, and then repeat the operation. [4]
If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it. [5]
I began gently to open the door--when something happened,--one of those little things that may change the course of a life. [9]
Hebe comes forward to meet her bridegroom, gently led on by Aphrodite, the queen of love. [10]
There he came to know this good man,"--her finger gently felt his name upon the stone,--"who made him a guest upon his ship; and so he came on towards England. [11]
Louis Racine got to his feet, but the Governor hastened forward, and, taking both his hands, forced him gently back into the chair. [11]
The widow hastened to her side, knelt clown by her, took the injured foot with tender care in her delicate and slender hands, examined it attentively, felt it gently, and then exclaimed with horror: "Good Lord! [10]
When Tikhon came to her Princess Mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping Mademoiselle Bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. [2]
But I had to have it; so I went down on my hands and knees, with one slipper on and the other in my hand, and began to paw gently around and rake the floor, but with no success. [5]
When Adrian began to feel better, she went to Bessie, who pale and inanimate, seemed to be gently fading away, and only now and then raised her little finger to play with her dry lips. [10]
It was difficult to elude their attention; yet close by Ephraim's couch, which his uncle, for greater comfort, had helped him make on the side of a gently sloping hill, a narrow ravine ran down to the valley. [10]
And the Colonel's thoughts that morning, as Ned shaved him, flew back through the years to a gently rolling Kentucky countryside, and a pillared white house among the oaks. [9]
He put his thoughts more gently, more vaguely. [11]
Manners, gently, "he thinks you dead. [9]
For an instant they stood so, and then he gently pressed her away from him. [11]
When she ceased, there was not a sound save of some woman gently sobbing. [11]
And he told them her name, and drew the coverlet up about his head and seemed to sleep; but he waked between the day and dark, and gently cried: "The snow is heavy on the mountain . [11]
The peace of the stars crept softly into Rudyard's heart as he galloped gently on to overtake his men. [11]
In one of the silences that fell between Shon's attempts to give hilarity to the occasion, there came a rumbling far-off sound, a sound that increased in volume till the earth beneath them responded gently to the vibration. [11]
Els then entered the sick-chamber, but Biberli put his hand under his sweetheart's chin, bent her head back gently, and said: "Now you see how Biberli and other clever people manage. [10]
He only acknowledged the shots by a salaam-like movement of his trunk, with the point of which he gently touched the wounds with a striking and peculiar action. [5]
The bottom of the sea on which they trod was firm, moist sand, on which even the herds could walk as if it were a smooth road, sloping gently toward the sea. [10]
Emerson looked at the rose admiringly, and then as if by a sudden impulse lifted his hat gently, and said with a low bow, 'I take off my hat to it. [6]
He could see the flash of the steel as the stone and metal gently clashed. [11]
Then he remembered the errand on which he had come, and thought of this youth, who had got to receive his first hard lesson in life, and whom he had brought to this kind man that it should be gently administered. [6]
Barbara hastily opened the door, but one of her attendants closed it again, and in doing so pressed her gently back into the chair. [10]
Mr. Weed closed the door gently, and locked it, and sat down in a rocking chair close to Jethro and put his hand over his mouth. [9]
M. Rossignol offered the Cure a chair, seated himself on a small bench, and gently drew Rosalie down beside him. [11]
The porches of the country-houses and the little towers on the larger buildings were all lighted up by brilliant flames, burning in pans of pitch and sending up clouds of smoke, in which the flags and pennons waved gently backwards and forwards. [10]
As they left the chamber, the kinsman of Li Choo was gently laying the body down upon the bamboo mat. [11]
He dismounted, threw the bridle over a post, and, going into the garden, knocked gently at the door. [11]
Then she remembered that he ought to be on his way, and she shook him gently, then, with all her strength, and called to him quietly all the time, as if her low tones ought to wake him, if nothing else could. [11]
And now, her surviving sister wrote: "Poor old Keeper died last Monday morning, after being ill one night; he went gently to sleep; we laid his old faithful head in the garden. [14]
Marion, at first surprised, was now touched, as she could not have thought it possible concerning this wild creature, and her hand went out and caught Lali's gently. [11]
He was much surprised that his advances were gently repulsed. [11]
The air was still, gently bracing, and, like most Irish air, adorably sweet. [11]
Meanwhile you sit still daughter dear, and you Mary rest her foot on a stool and undo the straps very gently from her ankle. [10]
But at last, startled by some sound without and so brought back to earth, she led him gently to the window at the side and looked up at him searchingly. [9]
He would not spoil the development of the drama, of which he now held the fluttering prologue, by any blunt treatment; he would touch this and that nerve gently to see what past connection there was between: "These dim blown birds beneath an alien sky. [11]
But he said something prayerfully, then closed his lips firmly, and gently laid the figure down, where it was immediately clothed about with slumber. [11]
Yonder, as if slumbering under a blue veil, lay the Calabrian coast, while nearer and more distant, but always noiselessly, ships and boats, with gently swelling sails, glided over the water. [10]
And the bookmaker simply sat calm and earnest with his eye-glass in his eye, and never did more than gently smile. [11]
Insall and her Silliston neighbours were wont, indeed, gently to rally her on her enthusiasms, while understanding and sympathizing with this need in her. [9]
In the painful silence the half-breed's hand was gently laid on the revolver. [11]
With a pained, shuddering little gasp she caught her handkerchief from her bosom, and, running one hand round his shoulder, quickly and gently caught away the spot of blood, and crumpled the handkerchief in her hand to hide it from him. [11]
But his father shook his head gently, and said, slowly and impressively: "Only of a man. [10]
In an instant she sprang from her bed and gently drew the curtain aside. [10]
Then at last she spoke more gently than I had ever heard her, and a glow came upon her face. [11]
For a minute she remained motionless; but the cloth, which had fallen low over her face, waved gently to and fro, moved by her fluttering breath. [10]
After a moment, she put out a hand and pushed him gently from her. [11]
Once for all she gently put him away from her into that infinite distance of fine respect which a good woman can feel, who has known what she and Richard had known--and set aside. [11]
And at last she drew away from him, gently, that she might look searchingly into his face again, and shook her head slowly. [9]
She believed that she clearly distinguished them sporting joyously up and down through the azure water, now plunging into the depths with their feet, and now with their heads foremost, anon floating gently on the surface of the waves. [10]
Very gently I set it in motion, facing the slide as I did so. [11]
But the small servant pausing, and holding up her finger, the cone gently disappeared, though the look of concern did not. [12]
The project had seemed gently humorous before--it was more than that now, with this stern business gravity injected into it. [5]
She took the scarf off gently, soaked it in oil and splashed it with flour, and laid it quickly back on the burnt flesh. [11]
For hours he sat unmoving, and when, at last, someone gently touched him on the shoulder, he only shook his head, and went on thinking. [11]
You--" "No," she said, gently, interrupting him; "that was my business. [4]
The soldier gently said, "I received--" and then paused. [11]
She watched him sadly for a moment, and then, leaning over and touching him gently on the shoulder, said: "It's worse for you than it is for me, father. [11]
There was a rush toward him, a rush that drove Janet against the wall almost at his side, and he held up his hands in mock despair, gently impeding the little bodies that strove to enter. [9]
The love of rural life, the habit of finding enjoyment in familiar things, that susceptibility to Nature which keeps the nerve gently thrilled in her homliest nooks and by her commonest sounds, is worth a thousand fortunes of money, or its equivalents. [4]
Her hair sprinkled round her as she gently threw back her head. [11]
He crossed the room, on tiptoe, as though he feared to wake once more this poor wretch to his misery and hate, Gently he covered again the face with the sheet. [9]
With a good-natured, ribald laugh, Boyne poured out another glass of marsala and pushed it gently over to Dyck's fingers. [11]
They could not resist the lively wiggle of the worm before their very noses, and we lifted them out one after an other, gently, and very much as if we were hooking them out of a barrel, until we had a handsome string. [4]
Up-stairs the uncle reproached the nephew gently, saying: "What did you get me into that engagement for? [5]
Good-bye," he gently replied; but he said something beneath his breath that sounded worth the hearing. [11]

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