Gentle

(verb.) stroke soothingly.

(adj.) having or showing a kindly or tender nature; 'the gentle touch of her hand'; 'her gentle manner was comforting'; 'a gentle sensitive nature'; 'gentle blue eyes' .

(adj.) quiet and soothing; 'a gentle voice'; 'a gentle nocturne' .

(adj.) soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe; 'a gentle reprimand'; 'a vein of gentle irony'; 'poked gentle fun at him' .

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• She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs. Clapp lost her own temper and pressed for the rent. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The human watchdogs must be philosophers or lovers of learning which will make them gentle. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Which of them had a step so quiet, a hand so gentle, but I should have heard or felt her, if she had approached or touched me in a day-sleep? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• No, indeed, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a gentle melancholy upon her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• There was a fine gentle wind, and Mr. Pickwick's hat rolled sportively before it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Her voice faltered and her hand trembled, and it was only the cold question of Ivanhoe, Is it you, gentle maiden? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Maria could not keep still and she walked around patting and gentling the horses and making them all more nervous and agitated. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Every vestige of the gentler thoughts which had filled her mind hardly a minute since seemed to be swept from it now. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I am going, she said again, in a gentler voice, to be married to him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It is impossible to be gentler, Herbert. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• When I wander, her gentler spirit ever restores me, and keeps before my eyes the Christian calling and mission of our race. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Nothing in her cherished affection in me, made me better, gentler; she only stirred my brain and whetted my acuteness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It lay there, warming into life a crowd of gentler thoughts; and she rested. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• He greeted me cordially; and told me I should certainly be happy under Doctor Strong, who was one of the gentlest of men. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The storm cannot bend the oak, but the gentlest breeze will make its branches quiver. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The gentlest summer breezes and the fiercest blasts of winter are produced by the unequal heating of air. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Charley seasoned his admiration with criticism of the gentlest kind, for the touch of Eustacia's hand yet remained with him. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The gentlest women are not such fools as to show EVERY card. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Now Aunt March possessed in perfection the art of rousing the spirit of opposition in the gentlest people, and enjoyed doing it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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