The breed is famed for being docile and eager to please, with a bearing of gentle dignity.

"You will find me a cheerful little, body" answered Phoebe, smiling, and yet with a kind of gentle dignity.

She took his hand and said with gentle dignity: "If you are Lucas's cousin then I am glad to meet you."

Every word must have burnt her lips, but she never departed from a gentle and melancholy dignity which filled me with respect against my will.

She answers my questions with gentle dignity.

"I will do as God wills," the priest concluded with gentle dignity.

The shy manner of her girlhood years had matured into a gentle dignity.

Susan replied with her usual gentle dignity, but a soft answer does not invariably turn away wrath.

She was very pale, but she walked with a firm step, and her carriage was full of grace and gentle dignity.

He heard a voice of gentle dignity: "Son, son, how does this happen?"