"Gently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... puts on airs of command and leadership insults his fellow-creatures, and should be gently but ...
— God and my Neighbour • Robert Blatchford
... a feeling of sadness we write it—all things must have an end! We make this unquestionable assertion in order to break to you, as gently as may be, the news that our tale has reached its close. Had we taken in hand to write the life and adventures of our hero and his friends from first to last, we should have had to prepare pens, ink, and paper, for a work equal ...
— The Wild Man of the West - A Tale of the Rocky Mountains • R.M. Ballantyne
... "No, sir," she answered gently, but yet firmly. "I cannot tell you exactly why I've changed my mind; but I shall not alter it again; and, as I said before, I beg your pardon if I've done wrong by you. And now ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... suddenly as it had arisen, and as they passed through Positano—which is four hundred feet high, the houses all up and down the side of a cliff like swallows' nests—big flakes of snow were gently falling around them. ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad • Edith Van Dyne
... You poor, beautiful little creature," said Farmer Brown's boy softly as he saw the cruel twig sticking through Redcoats' shoulder. "We'll have to get that out right away," continued Farmer Brown's boy, stroking Redcoat ever so gently. ...
— The Burgess Bird Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
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