With gentle firmness he drew Elizabeth back and closed the wheelhouse door.

"Not if I could help it, son," Sam responded with gentle firmness.

He grasped the squirming animal with gentle firmness, watching to see that it did not crack its teeth.

Hands pushed down with gentle firmness on his shoulders, then squeezed with just the right amount of pressure.

One grunt- Smith felt gentle firmness as something pulled loose.

And with gentle firmness, he pushed her away.

"It is not your place to question your Queen, young man," she said with a gentle firmness.

"You know what you must do," Wulfston replied with gentle firmness.

Flynn's own superintendent had voiced that same fear less than an hour earlier, speaking with gentle firmness over the telephone.

At times, too, when the wild fit was upon her, she would break into pertness and rebel openly against Alleyne's gentle firmness.