On his part, he had determined to try the gentler arts of persuasion, and though his face still bore the welts made by her riding whip the night before he strove to forget it and play the gentleman.
But since we are ourselves the judges of our crimes, what if we should inflict a gentler punishment?
Above them were other cliffs of ice with rather gentler slopes; at their feet was a great glacier that filled up the whole of this basin and then swept down till it almost joined the Kangshung Glacier.
It is rather a great rock mass, coated often with a thin layer of white powder which is blown about its sides, and bearing perennial snow only on the gentler ledges and on several wide faces less steep than the rest.
Though I bow to the goddesses I cannot forget at their feet a gentler spirit than theirs, a little shy perhaps, but constant in the changing winds and variable moods of mountains and always friendly.
We knew already that the snow's surface, despite a thin crust, could not hold us, and counted on snow-shoes to save labour at the gentler angles.
I would not have adopted this plan had there been any other--any gentler one.
Vaudemont was, at that moment, in one of those bitter moods when the sense of his situation, the sight of the usurper in his home, often swept away the gentler thoughts inspired by his fatal passion.
They, with one shout, proclaim their law my will, 47 And veer the prow from northern snows afar, Soon gentler winds the murmuring canvas fill, Fair floats the bark where guides the western star.
Friend," quoth the King, "methinks your streams might boast A gentler margin and a fairer ford!
Before my gaze I see my youth, The ghost of gentler years, arise, With looks that yearn'd for every truth, And wings that sought the farthest skies.
He, if he remembers the transaction, will doubtless say so too; but there will be none the less for both a certain sting in the recollection, and you will wish that the same end could have been accomplished by gentler means.
The effect is still more decided in the case of girls than in that of boys, the gentler sex being naturally so much more sensitive.
Crime such as hers admits not long the sentiment that softens remorse of gentler error.
For a moment anger burned in him and then something, perhaps the rhythm of the moving mass of men, brought a gentler mood.
A smile came into the face of the tall woman and a gentler look stole into her eyes.
He read law as another and gentler nature might have read poetry or old legends.
The captain strode along fiercely, muttering to himself; only at the garden gate did his features relax, and he passed into the house with a gentler face.
Then in a moment she lost that gentler tone and swung round upon him fiercely.
I trust, whatever my faults may be, that I shall never be accused of a lack of what I may term the gentler virtues.
She was always filled with the deepest contrition afterward; was always a thousand times kinder and gentler to him than she had been before, so that the misery he had suffered was more than atoned for.
Ah, you say that out of your good heart; but I reproach myself very much that I have not beengentler with you--that I have not considered your grief a little more.
If we deforest these steep slopes, water is going to injure them much more than it would the gentler slopes of the lower lands, if they had been deforested.
Some of the rock fragments collect upon the gentler slopes and finally turn to soil.
While much of the Island coast is a line of vertical cliff, the northern shores are of gentler aspect, wooded slopes reaching to the water's edge, or meadow land sloping gradually to the sea level.
The gentler and diminished streams of a drier age have no power to roll flint stones along and form beds of gravel.
Eliza's milder, gentler sway, Her conquests fairly won, Shall last till life and time decay, Eternal as the sun.
O say what yet untasted beauties flow, What purer joys await hergentler reign?
Remember, while you are forming habits, in this respect, how sensitively constituted are the gentler sex, how easily pained, how easily pleased.
He is very aged, and she always attends upon him herself, when he is there, even to combing his hair," explained the gentler spirit.
To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign, I turn; and France displays her bright domain.
Put the mountains and the seas between you; be ungrateful, be unforgiving; be all that is most repellent to your own gentler nature, rather than live under the same roof and breathe the same air with that man.
Put the mountains and the seas between you; be ungrateful; be unforgiving; be all that is most repellent to your own gentler nature, rather than live under the same roof and breathe the same air with that man.
I tried to be all that was most repellent to my own gentler nature; I tried to think pitilessly of putting the mountains and the seas between me and the man who bore my name.
He looked worn and weary, but his smile wasgentler and his manner more composed than usual.
Her complexion was the lovely complexion which accompanies such hair as hers--so delicately bright in its rosier tints, so warmly and softly white in its gentler gradations of color on the forehead and the neck.
A similitude is used even gentler than a father's care: "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.
If from such a scene one returns to life's activities in braver, truer, and gentler mood, there has been to him a divine revelation.
In a word, is there not in luxury and in pomp a spell which no gentler or wiser mind would disdain?
Answer me: would not the earlier fate be far gentler than the last?
Wallace rode on till, crossing the bridge of Lanark, he saw the rising moon silver the tops of the distant hills; and then his meditations embraced a gentler subject.
We have had no bright, particular star among thegentler sex, like Fred.
And yet there were those among our lone damsels, who, one would have thought, would have eked out the sentence when it was once fairly begun, for the solitude of no man had ever more commiseration from the gentler sex than did his.
The discussion about the three monarchies had been much gentler and much more agreeable than the discussion about the three republics.
It is gentle when he deals with the people of the stage--far gentler then than when he is dealing with the people of Society, with fashionable folk, with the aristocracy of wealth.
While in these serious aspects of the battle of life the game is thus to come to our aid, it shall be of similar service also in the gentler paths.
She is gentler than St. Andrews, a sweet innocent maiden wading with bare feet among the rocks of the Haddington coast, whom you love to tease and toy with; while my lady of Fifeshire is colder and of great dignity and compelling attractions.
A delicate nature will not commonly choose a pursuit which implies the habitual infliction of suffering, so readily as somegentler office.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
