The young were weepers, for their memories stored Many a gentle word, and precept kind, Like jewels dropp'd behind her.
A few white flowers Crept o'er a bosom and a gentle hand That clasp'd them not.
But then Jack felt a gentle tug, and, after some little excitement, managed to bring out a fair-sized catch.
Onward they went once more, up a gentle hill and then down the slope on the other side.
And thou, gentle cypress, in evergreen tears, Art constant and hopeful though winter appears.
At what inaudible summons, at what gentle touch of Nature, are all these sleepers thus recalled in the same hour to life?
We have listened this evening to an exceedingly instructive, kind and gentle address, particularly that part of it which tells how to deal with the South after we have brought them back.
The result of that day's cogitation was one of the most cutting speeches that the "Gentle Anna," as the Tribune called her, ever made.
Davis has been from the first a most able and efficient advocate; her winning, gentle manners, her courtesy and respect for the rights of others have been unvarying.
She makes statesmen, and her gentle influence, like the finger of the angel pointing to the path of duty, would be lost in the controversies of political strife.
Men who talk such nonsense in America, must remember that neither wealth nor gentle blood can here protect them from such a dilemma.
This motley band, led by a gentle and spiritual-faced woman, will not soon be forgotten by those who saw it depart.
Griffing, a woman of rare endowments intellectually, with a heart as true and gentle as God ever gave to woman.
I want this gentle and holy influence to continue pure and uncontaminated by keeping it within the domestic fane and afar from party politics.
Hitherto, in the spirit of her passive and gentle character, she had taken the engagement between Evelyn and Lord Vargrave almost as a matter of course.
My lord," replied the old man, with a gentle smile, "a new vicar has been appointed.
In the affection of the latter, gentle and never fluctuating as it was, there seemed to her a something wanting, which she could not define.
When men of gentle lives depart, They leave behind no brilliant story Of fam'd exploits, to make men start In wonder at their dazzling glory.
Oh, may their graceful figures long Their youthful energy retain, And may they meet no heartless wrong, To fill their gentle souls with pain.
E'en such a time, and such a scene Could not love's gentle pow'r dispel.
One might almost say that they had to make up their minds to give up Jesus the author of the attempt to take Jerusalem by storm; but for Jesus the gracious gentle Galilaean teacher they kept a warm place in their hearts.
How great is the change from the gentle teacher of the Sermon on the Mount!
Thus He rode, on His long-eyelashed gentle mule, from village to village, from town to town.
They must be subjected to a gentlepressure to bring them together, and make them coalesce into a unity in which all the data are happily combined.
And how confiding they were, thisgentle and peaceful company of Galilaean fisher folk!
His preaching was gentle and mild (suave et douce), full of nature and the fragrance of the country.
Oft have I proved the labors of thy love, And the warm efforts of the gentle heart Anxious to please.
And thou, my friend, whose gentle love Yet thrills my bosom's chords, How much thy friendship was above Description's power of words.
Of all felicities the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship.
He knew the private business of every one, gentle or simple, for miles round, and took an easy, unaffected interest in it all.
She began to feel very tired, and suddenly, whilst answering one of his searching, gentle questions, her voice broke, and she burst into tears.
Thy sister's courtesy, her gentle breeding--with what delight my heart dwelleth thereon, and how we sat together the day I became thy wife!
They are gentleand simple, and naturally well-bred.
But she was inexorable, though perfectly gentlein her manner.
She greeted me with gentle warmth, but she hardly looked at Max; her white lids dropped over her eyes whenever he addressed her, and when she answered him she seemed to speak in a more measured voice than usual.
He was perfectly kind and gentle to her, as he was to all women, but he was also reserved and distant; in spite of their long acquaintance, for he had visited at Gladwyn for years, there was no familiarity between them.
I could have sat by her contentedly for hours, holding her hard work-worn hand and listening to her gentle flow of talk with its Scriptural phrases and simple realistic thoughts.
Gladys was very impulsive and enthusiastic; perhaps Max was too quiet and gentle to take her heart by storm.
She used to be half offended with me for my plain speaking, but she was too gentle to resent it, and she would beg me to use my influence with Hamilton to entreat him not to be so hard on Eric.
I had vowed to myself that no amount of pressing should induce me to sing that evening, but I could not have refused that gentle solicitation.
I sang 'Abide with me,' and several other suitable hymns, and I did not stop until the hard look of woe in Phoebe's eyes had softened into a more gentle expression.
Mr. Hamilton talked more to his sisters than to me, but his manner was strangely gentle when he addressed me.
Oh, call him Max to me,' I burst out, but she drew herself up with gentle dignity.
I was rather startled later on, when most of the household had retired to rest, to hear a gentle tap at the door.
Oh, you want to contradict me; you would tell me how gentle Gladys is, and how submissive.
She was very gentleand submissive, and followed my advice in everything.
I would not change this hue, Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle queen.
Gentle lady, When I did first impart my love to you, I freely told you all the wealth I had Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman; And then I told you true.
The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath.
Tell gentle Jessica I will not fail her; speak it privately.
Footnote 1: Pope's free rendering of these lines is as follows: If some proud brother eyed me with disdain, Or scornful sister with her sweeping train, Thy gentle accents softened all my pain.
Once or twice again he succeeded in getting her to come out for a gentle ride, solicitous on their return to know that it had not overtired her, eager for her to confess that she really had enjoyed it.
With that Leander stooped to have embraced her But from his spreading arms away she cast her, And thus bespake him: "Gentle youth, forbear To touch the sacred garments which I wear.
Stone still he stood, and evermore he gazed Till with the fire that from his countenance blazed Relenting Hero's gentle heart was strook.
She, fearing on the rushes to be flung, Strived with redoubled strength; the more she strived The more a gentle pleasing heat revived, Which taught him all that elder lovers know.
Though neither gods nor men may thee deserve, Yet for her sake, whom you have vowed to serve, Abandon fruitless cold virginity, The gentle queen of love's sole enemy.
But in the movement of her hands there was something as though she were resisting the wind, with a smile of gentle irony, of tender mockery.
She was sweet andgentle to-night, but so very quiet.
Addie came home; and, with the rain pelting outside, there was a gentle cosiness indoors, at table.
Even though she very much feared the absurdity of it for herself, she could not help it: a new youthfulness filled her with a gentle glow, a new tenderness, like the delicate bloom of a young girl's soul dreaming of the wonderful future.
He was many days about it, for it was many miles down to the sea; and perhaps he would never have found his way, if the fairies had not guided him, without his seeing their fair faces, or feeling their gentle hands.
He took out his pocket-comb, and touched up the arrangement of his whiskers with a skilled and gentle hand.
Amelius removed the handkerchief by the exercise of a little gentle force, and administered comfort under the form of a kiss.
Amelius wrote back, always in the same considerate and gentle tone; always laying the blame of his dull letters on the studious uniformity of his life.
The visitor proved to be Phoebe, with her handkerchief to her eyes; indulging in grief, in humble imitation of her young mistress's gentle method of proceeding on similar occasions.
Having dismissed the maid with that gentle hint, he shook hands heartily with Amelius.
I hope I have not expressed myself too strongly about taking Emma to the seaside," she said, in gentle pleading tones.
The ready tears showed themselves again in her magnificent eyes--gentle considerate tears that raised no storm in her bosom, and produced no unbecoming results in her face.
Regina forgave him, with a gentle and ladylike astonishment at the excitable manner in which he made his excuses.
