5441 examples of gently in sentences

'Tis not gently done, To put me in a miserable life, And hold me there; I pray thee let me go, I shall do best without thee; I am well.

Look you friends, how gently he leads, upon my word He's tame enough, he need[s] no further watching.

BG] gently. l. 10.

Her voice was solemn, but tender, gently upbraiding, like her countenance.

Gently he was fingering an old octavo; fingering it as one would who was between the hyperionic desire of possession and a fear that a bank account owed its solvency to keeping the amounts of deposits somewhere in proportion to the amount of withdrawals.

John Wingfield, Sr.'s eyes shifted to the pushbuttons and later to a paper on the desk, with which his fingers played gently.

And just how can you help?" asked his father, gently.

And, Jack, there is a little touch of gray on the temples"Mary was running her fingers very, very gently over the wound"which I like.

" "Yes, I know all about it," said Fay gently.

Something about the boy's clothing attracted his attention, so, drawing his knife, he deftly and gently ripped away the coat and shirt.

"I'll be back in a minute," she said gently, but seeing some look of pleading in his eyes, she put the empty bowl and spoon on the little table and sat down on the floor near the bed.

" "They will see it, Luigi," said Miss Thorne gently.

thee another Flood Of Tears and Sorrow, a Flood thee also drowned, And sunk thee as thy Sons; till gently rear'd By th' Angel, on thy Feet thou stoodst at last, Tho' comfortless, as when a Father mourns His Children, all in view destroyed at once.

Annette gently smoothed her beautiful hair and tried to soothe her into quietness.

She repulsed him gently as he bent over to kiss them away.

God! think gently of me!

With a swift movement, Ralph put his two hands upon her cheeks and gently raised her face.

" "Dora," said Miss Panney, speaking very gently, "you are wrong when you say that there was no chance of Ralph's coming to Barport.

" "Deal gently with the erring," said the doctor.

Mary also came across early, to help to dress the bride, and her mood was so wildly hilarious that Mrs. Burton felt it necessary to gently reprove her.

"I do not understand you," she said gently, and the silence in the kitchen was so profound, as they waited for Mr. Clay's reply, that the buzz of talk which had broken out in the crowded store seemed tremendously loud by contrast.

By slow degrees he'd steal away Their woe, and gently bring a ray (So happily he'd time relief)

"There's no hope," said Captain Ellice in a low voice, laying his hand gently on Captain Guy's shoulder.

The doctor smiled gently and rubbed one hand against the other.

But Jimmie, while he is not more conceited than most people, is what you might call confident, and he would have been all right in this instance, if he had noticed that a race had just been rowed and that the swell from the racers was just rippling over the boom and creeping gently toward the house-boat.

5441 examples of  gently  in sentences