Emotion, sentiment, give one extra force" She stopped and resumed in a strangely gentle voice: "You are young, and if you don't make good it won't hurt very much.

This tyranny and humility served her in place of education and formed her manners, which were wonderfully gentle and calm.

Even when the grand anthem had swelled to its highest pitch, I could distinctly hear the varying tones of individual trees,Spruce, and Fir, and Pine, and leafless Oak,and even the infinitely gentle rustle of the withered grasses at my feet.

The chin was round and not enough developed; the clean-shaven lips had a singularly gentle expression, and the very near-sighted blue eyes were not set deeply enough to give strength to the look.

His eyes were unusually gentle and pensive.

he asked, in that peculiarly gentle voice which he keeps for the most unhealthy occasions.

"You were quite right to come to me," he said as I concluded, in that soft musical voice of his, his keen gaze having changed into one no less direct, but marvellously gentle: "of course, I will go and see your mother, and I have little doubt that if you will not mind talking over your position with me, we may see our way clear to doing as your mother wishes.

Abdallah occupies rather a peculiar position in Mahomet's entourage; he was often the Prophet's opponent, sometimes his open defier, and yet Mahomet's dealings with him were uniformly gentle and forbearing.

So spake Beltane, hot and passionate, striding to and fro upon the sward, while Ambrose sat with bitterness in his heart but with eyes ineffably gentle.

She is remarkably gentle and tractable, of good form, and great endurance, and will work in any way.

You know you don't mean it," said Rowcliffe, utterly gentle.

and yet this was like my memory,sweetly gentle, loving past expression's power, no taint of earth therein.

She had her curiously gentle mind quite made up.

Among the South American monkeys the Howlers are untamable; the Sapajous less so; while the Spider Monkeys are instinctively gentle and fond of man: as may be seen in the case of the very fine Marimonda (Ateles Beelzebub) now dying, I fear, in the Zoological Gardens at Bristol.

The dinner was invariably gentle, persuasive, a thoughtful gastronomic achievement.

He had no mother to come and watch beside that couch, no kind gentle sister, no loving father.

Her whole soul was concentrated in justifying, loving, and saving Thurstane; and her manner, instead of being serenely and almost lazily gentle, was unpleasantly excited.

My Love was false, but I was firm from my hour of birth; Upon my buried body lay lightly gentle earth.

To see the face of a simple-hearted child, eager but serene, determined but lovingly gentle, surrounded and glorified by such splendid physical womanhood, was a rare sight.

Whatever posterity may do with his music, he has left a life-story of strange perplexities, in which apparent frenzies of effeminacy and hysteria, of passionate terror and helplessness at self-control fall in strange contrast with the temper of his music, which at its gentlest is masculinely gentle and at its fiercest is virile to the point of the barbaric.

He was calm and decided; but his tones were milder, and his manners mere gentle than was his wont.

His tone was even more musically gentle than the other's, yet her eyes instantly opened into his

But Robert, ordinarily gentle and sympathetic, was not inclined to spare him.

He was positively gentle and showed signs of the making of a near gentleman.

His powerfully gentle personality has an undoubted effect on the revolutionaries, and while neither element wants to embrace pacifism, both want AE's revolution to go forward with theirs.