47 examples of ungentle in sentences

"But for our tall brother now, he is changed these latter days: he groweth harsh, methinks, and something ungentle at times."

RogerO Roger man, I have seen men die in many and diver ungentle ways ere now, but these men these men of Gui's, looklook yonder!

Yonder you shall hear Orson and Jenkyn, who having saved each other's life in battle and loving like brothers, do oft contend together with tongues most ungentle; go you, my son, and quiet me the naughty rogues.

An ungentle hand on his shoulder recalled him to time and place.

His form was enveloped in a sweeping sad-coloured robe; a light, thin veil resting on his countenance, mitigated, without concealing, the not ungentle austerity of his marble features.

Miranda hung upon her father, saying, "Why are you so ungentle?

But Telemachus, seeing her strangeness, blamed her, and called her an ungentle and tyrannous mother!

The most ungentle of his tribe was he, No generous precept ever touched his heart; With concord false, and hideous prosody, He scrawled his task, and blundered o'er his part.

No wonder you can't use your feet!" To the elderly woman's horror he had swooped down and laid a not ungentle hand on her ankle in its neat and smart-looking shoe.

Your ungracious manner and ungentle looks, I presume, arise from what appears to you a sufficient and well-defined cause, of which, however, I know nothing.

Ungentle grooms first took and tore me thus, From whom old Salisbury, chastising their wrong, Most kindly brought me to this gentle queen; Who laid her soft hand on my bleeding cheeks, Gave kisses to my lips, wept for my woe; And was devising how to send me back, Even when your last alarum frighted us, And by her kindness fell into your hands. LEI.

Forgive me, gentle girl, My most ungentle wrongs.

For my poor lady mother Did kill herself to save my dying brother; And thou, ungentle son of Miriam, Why didst thou beg life when thy mother lack'd?

Had my affections not belonged to another, ungentle would have been my heart not to have loved yourself, who are so capable of loving; but (as you must well know) to love two at once is neither fitting nor in one's power.

These eyes that saw him bleed have wept for him, This heart devisde his harme hath sigh'd for him, And now this hand, that with ungentle force Depryv'd his life, shall with repentant service Make treble satisfaction to his soule.

"Alas, for such ungentle doom!

It so happened that he sprawled exactly on top of the trousers pocket aforesaid, and when the man sought, with hasty and ungentle hands, to remove him from it, Kirk launched a sudden and violent kick, in the hope of its doing some execution.

But if such be God's law, what shall be the reckoning of those who make no conscience of uttering continually, or when they will, not idle words only, but expressions the most absurd, insignificant, false, exaggerated, vulgar, indecent, injurious, wicked, sophistical, unprincipled, ungentle, and perhaps blasphemous, or profane? OBS.

Devout old Jeremy Taylor in his Holy Livinga book which is read by few, but praised by manythus counsels the suffering wife[402]: "But if, after all the fair deportments and innocent chaste compliances, the husband be morose and ungentle, let the wife discourse thus: 'If, while I do my duty, my husband neglects me, what will he do if I neglect him?'

The gentle man can not in the nature of things do an ungentle and ungentlemanly thing.

The ungentle soul, the inconsiderate, unsympathetic nature can not do anything else.

"If no ungentle words you speak, No wicked actions do, And if, with every day, you seek To be more kind and true, "Then, by our darling Willie's side, And joined in heart and hand, Forevermore shall you abide, Among the angel band.

Ungentle Abigal.

The bed squeaked; the mattress, I think, was filled with corn-shucks, the hard part of which had an ungentle way of assailing you when you least expected it.

He submitted without resistance to my rather ungentle handling of these sensitive structures, and showed no signs of discomfort even when I brought the candle-flame to within a couple of inches of his eyes.

47 examples of  ungentle  in sentences