We are too sensitive for the gentlest touch; and when we really have the most infirmity, we are angry to be told that we have any.
By those unpractised accents of young speech, 25 Which he who is a father thought to frame To gentlest lore, such as the wisest teach-- THOU strike the lyre of mind!
Other birds quarrel a good deal during nest building, but swallows are the gentlest of little people.
Who can help loving Thackeray, wittiest, gentlest of men, in spite of the faint suspicion of snobbishness that clings to him?
Oh, gentlest of all gentle girls," He thought, "beneath the blessed sun!
Boon nature's gentlestwizardry Was potent with the bounteous hour: A raptured languor o'er me crept; I laid me down at noon and slept.
So salt, so medicinal is Truth, that even the bitterest draught may be made wholesome to the gentlest soul.
Slowly, as then, His bounteous hand The golden chain unwinds, Drawing to Heaven with gentlest band Wise hearts and loving minds.
But we by Fancy may assuage The festering sore by Fancy made, Down in some lonely hermitage Like wounded pilgrims safely laid, Where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed, That Love yet lives, and Patience shall find rest.
HE was all sunshine; in his face The very soul of sweetness shone; Fairest and gentlest of his race; None like him we can call our own.
He now spoke in the gentlest tones, and lifted her hand to his lips.
The still air, with only the very gentlest south-westerly breath in it, brings up the mighty boom of the great ship guns from the old seaport, thirty miles away, and the pheasants answer to the sound as they do to thunder.
I saw all this, but it never entered my head that Miss Ellery would cast a moment's thought other than those of the gentlest womanly compassion on poor Will Marshall.
A charming Quaker family where you will find the best of fruit, and the nicest of board, and the quietest and gentlest of hosts, all for a sum quite within our means.
Women soon learn a vast amount of tact and diplomacy on that subject: but she gave me to understand that I was peculiarly congenial to her, and encouraged the outflow of all my romance with the gentlest atmosphere of indulgence.
With his gentlest manner he addressed her: 'May I present myself to you, mademoiselle?
Thou Sun, that kindlest all thy gentlest rays Above it, as to light a favorite hearth!
Gentlest and bravest in the battle brunt, The champion of the truth, He bore his banner to the very front Of our immortal youth.
Griefs defied, But launch their threatening thunderbolts in vain, And angry storms pass by in gentlest showers!
But as a memory, nothwithstanding such conditions, Lucetta's image still lived on with him, her weaknesses provoking only the gentlest criticism, and her sufferings attenuating wrath at her concealments to a momentary spark now and then.
He, the most nervous, sensitive of men, could always retire to the serene atmosphere of a home governed by placid common sense and be soothed by the gentlest affection.
He was the calmest and gentlest of human beings, and to his calmness was attributable the fact that he lived till 1858, although when he was twenty the offices refused to insure his life for a year on any terms.
With the gentlest of manners and a refined and delicate sense of humour, he had powers of launching epigrams the subtle flavour of which necessarily disappears when detached from their context.
You had something to talk to me about," she said, in her gentlest of voice.
And he, overhearing: "Oh, gentlestsound through the warring darkness!
The latter, the gentlest soul among them, has taken account of the old companion's countenance; his sympathy is quick to interpret it, by a word he changes the mood toward him of all the others.
He still continued to exercise the powers of his astonishing mind: upon his finishing the revisal of his Homer, in March, 1799, his kinsman endeavoured in the gentlest manner to lead him into new literary occupation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentlest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
