9 Metaphors for gentle

Miss Flora Gentle was a cousin of their hostess.

The day is fading from the sky, And softly shines the Star of Even, As watching with a lover's eye The rest of Earth the peace of Heaven; The dew is rising cool and sweet, And, zephyr-rock'd, the flowers are closing, The Night steals on with noiseless feet, Oh! gentle be my love's reposing.

Busy as the busy bee, his rest should be the clover; Gentle as the lamb was he, and the fern should be his cover; Fern and rosemary shall grow my soldier's pillow over: Where the rain may rain upon it, Where the sun may shine upon it, Where the lamb hath lain upon it, And the bee will dine upon it.

Gentle but judicious treatment Is the method for Chrysanthus.

It combines the force of the greatest orators with the graces of the first of poets; and in short; is a river to which those justly celebrated lines of Denham may be most pertinently applied: Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erfowing full.

Phil Gentle is an enemy to the rudeness of contradiction and the turbulence of debate.

Would you consume the entire city, and make of its ruins a horrible monument to your memory? Do not say, "We have not done this; it is the people who are working out their own revenge, and we stand for nothing, we are as gentle as lambs.

They attack hordes of deadly pirates, and scatter their bodies along the shore; and yet, for all their warlike fire and force, they are as gentle as marmozets in a lady's boudoir.

He was on the point of speaking, but the fingers left his hair and stroked as gentle as velvet over his storm-beaten face.

9 Metaphors for  gentle