Closer and closer came the soft and stealthy sound, and the next instant, to the lad's unspeakable horror, the dark figure of a man kneeling on all fours rose at his very side, and a hand was passed gently over his body.
Cut up small and put in a saucepan with the water; cook gently till they are soft, and then add the sugar.
Put the sugar and water on the stove and boil gently three minutes without stirring.
The next day, put the beans in fresh water and gentlycook them half an hour, skimming them occasionally.
So she took them out of the pan and carefully opened them at the side, using a knife at first, and then tearing them gently apart so they would not be heavy.
Mix all together, and then gently add cold water and stir till you have a thick batter.
Then gently boil it, stirring constantly from the bottom up, so the fruit will not burn.
Peel them, dropping each one in cold water till all are done, and then put them in a pot of boiling, salted water, and cook gently half an hour.
Butter the top of each biscuit; when baked, gently separate them into two layers.
Strain it, and set it away to grow perfectly cold; then there will be a layer of fat on top; take this off, add the rice and put it back on the stove and gently cook it till the rice is done.
For the first time, really concerned and touched, Demorest laid his hand gently on his shoulder.
Dissolve the gelatine, stir it, when cool, into the sweetened and flavoured custard, and pour this gently over the cakes.
Let it bake gently till firm; then take it out, and when cold pack it in the basket.
Sevier gently nudged Jackson to stand aside and, leaning from the window, muttered: “Major, times are ticklish.
We soon must begin to call ourselves Americans—if we wouldn’t bend the knee to Spain,” gently corrected Sevier with a whimsical smile.
He made to walk a bit with her, but she gently pushed him back into the arbour.
A strong hand gently lifted her away; then Chief Watts, arrayed for hunting but carrying no weapons except the knife in his belt, entered the room, followed by a file of head men.
Now tell me where you got a Creek scalp,” gently commanded Polcher.
The broad hills, swelling gently one above another as they recede from the river, are diversified with nearly the same intermixture of field and forest as in the most highly cultivated portions of the eastern states.
During the prevalence of the greatest heat of the day, which was 94 degrees, we again set forward, and passed over a gently undulated surface, supporting an open forest of young and scrub oak, intermixed with hickory.
This bluff is naked, of a gently rounded surface, presenting a high rugged and inaccessible front upon the river, which it commands to a considerable distance in both directions.
Betty went to the bedside, and gently slipped the sheet of cardboard under the sick man's right hand.
Beyond the stile the path ran across a piece of meadow land; thence through a hardwood grove, rising gently to a little plateau upon which the mansion was situated.
You remember, Betty, that Eunice took you in her arms, and told you very gently what had happened.
He is to ascertain the condition of affairs there, and gently endeavor to gain the submission of the king as a vassal of Spain.
He is instructed to reduce, as gently as he can, the pirates of that group to peaceful agriculturists, and secure from them the payment of tribute.
The banks of the Meuse hereabouts present either an abrupt precipice or coteaux covered with vines gently sloping to the water's edge.
He gently slumbers: Reluctantly I rouse him, but time numbers The hours yet left for action.
Deal gently with this boy of noble race, Nor wantonly expose him to disgrace.
His rounds from bloom to bloom the bee begins With flying song, and cowslip wine he sups, Where to the warm and passing southern winds, Azaleas gently swing their yellow cups.
Be patient, weary body, soon the night Will wrap thee gently in her sable sheet, And with a leaden sigh thou wilt invite To rest thy tired hands and aching feet.
And Noel told her, as mercifully and gently as he could, all that he had learned from the lawyer's statements.
Noel spoke little, but led hergently on to talk as freely as she chose.
Sweet mother-kisses were pressed upon her cheeks and eyes, and she was gently reassured and calmed and strengthened.
Throwing his cigar away he went below and knocked very gentlyat the stateroom door.
A strange smile came to her lips as her eyes rested gently on the little teacher.
Aunt Faith sighed, and laid her handgently on the young girl's dark curls.
Will you try to speak gently to Tom, to forgive him when he teases you, to give up your own way when your playmates desire something else, and, above all, to pray night and morning with your whole heart?
Then he made fast his tackle on a belaying-pin and gently paid out the restraining rope he had fastened round the mast till the launch swung at the end of the boom suspended twenty feet in the air.
On and on skimmed the Golden Eagle, seemingly as much at home on the surface of the gently heaving South Atlantic as in the upper air currents.
Riska shook her head gently--so gently that for a minute she looked like Glory.
He lifted her down very gently and watched her as she stood before it.
He was awakened late in the night by a hand pushing gently but insistently against his shoulder.
The horse whinnied gently as if he understood and Will, leading the four back to the rich grass, tethered them at the ends of their long lariats.
He drew away from her gently, and gently he deposited her in a big chair, where she buried her face and sobbed afresh.
Then he leaned his weight against the door and slid down gently to the floor.
When that person arrived, Johnny was sleeping gently, and gently he awoke and allowed his pulse to be taken.
For a moment he could see the houses before him, even down to their doorsteps, and a moment later only the roofs peered at him over the crest of a gently swelling rise.
With the water hurling itself almost upon him, he gained the bank ten feet farther downstream, where the sides were more gently sloping.
He followed the road for perhaps a half-mile and then turned away to a little mound of earth rising gently from the flatness about it.
Get along," he continued, striking the animal gently with his whip.
He then gently drew the furs aside and exposed the young man's shoulder.
The trembling and tearful girl then gently and sadly strewed the flowers over the grass at her feet.
Joe struck the gate several blows with his knuckles, but so gently that he could not hear them himself.
I was gently forced from the dissecting-room by my friends, and conducted to my home in silence--in silence, because I had no words for any one.
Her handsome and gently swelling arms were covered with a slight gauze of short, dark hair, through which the snowy whiteness of her skin was displayed to greater advantage.
The fawn then rose up, and creeping gently about the room, touched the cheeks or hands of the slumbering inmates with its velvet tongue, but so softly that none were awakened.
Now go to it," said Glenn, gently taking the gun from Joe.
She obeyed, and when he had carefully folded the robes and divers furs about her body, he stepped a few paces to one side, and gently lifting up a round lid of snow-crust, placed it over the aperture.
After a long pause, during which neither party had uttered a word or betrayed animation by the least movement, Glenn felt the weight of a hand laid gently on his shoulder, and turning beheld Mary at his side.
Behind her the ground sloped gently up to a wooded rise; in front of her it sloped as gently down to the edge of a narrow, noisy mountain stream.
She freed herself gently from the clinging arms and followed the two.
She reached again to tug gently at a ragged sleeve.
I didn't eat many," she asserted, gently argumentative.
And gently withdrawing his paw from her eager grasp, laid it upon his breast.
The Piper was glowering at Jane, who was rocking gently from side to side, displaying first one face, then the other.
Prophet stood upon his doorstep and, very gently indeed, inserted his latchkey into the door.
Lady Enid, gently folding a fragment of thin bread and butter and nibbling it with her pretty mouth.
He felt that she was curious to her finger-tips as he gently pressed them.
He gazed awfully at the Prophet, and gently opened the door of this temple of the intellect.
The Prophet let her ring for nearly five minutes, then he bounded once more upstairs and tapped very gently on the door.
Then, laying his hand gently on Claire's arm, he drew her away from the window and shut the blinds on the sight which had so horrified them.
Claire spoke gently to him, a slight quiver in her own voice, her dark eyes, like his, fixed upon the dwindling dark speck on the dusky white road.
He admits that they may serve to make men live in peace with one another, and to prepare them gently for the hour of death.
The one slopes gently towards the Pole, the other towards the Equator.
Old Jack whinnied softly and, after his fashion, rubbed his nose gently against his master's arm.
Always they spoke very gentlyto one another, these wild spirits of the border.
He walked a long time and presently he felt the horse rubbing his nose gently against his arm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
