Or whether the kind and gentle thing to do was to put the little creature out of its misery.

Kiss her perhaps, though that seems a gentle thing compared to the violence in his face and body.

He had somehow pictured it as a more gentle thing.

Then he'd say some gentle thing like 'You know your father.

Perhaps it was the demands of having to take on me and the farm that left her so little time for the gentler things.

When peace had come to the land, and he could concentrate on gentle things.

His widow tells us the things we expect to hear; that he was good, kind, gentle.

It shall become a garden world, full of gentle things.

I say gentle and tender things you would not expect of a rough soldier.

He looked as if you could blow him over, and his smile was the gentlest thing I had ever seen.