Especially nice piece on the gentling of the word tough.

I don't mind giving a skittish lady a little gentling.'

For a moment the fat man was silent, and even his pudgy hands ceased their gentling of the box.

Despite the gentling of the waves, his hands were still knotted in cramp.

When at last he stood, he saw a gentling of the path, a leveling of the way.

A little gentling of the spirit.

Gentling, therefore, is reserved for animals-mostly beasts of burden intended for urban service.

It was the sudden gentling of Lowman's gruff voice that alerted him. '

G. David Gentling.

The Traitor's Court was used for only three purposes: executions, the stilling of an Aes Sedai, or the gentling of a man who could channel.

Other than basic gentling, training and management of yearlings has many areas of dispute, mainly because some yearlings look very mature and strong, even though they do not yet have the skeletal structure to support hard work.

There were nights when it wasn't, and he'd had to admit-though not to pragmatic Husari-that the return of the spring flowers and the gentling of the evening breezes off the lake had made those nights more frequent.

Singer/guitarist Eric Bachmann, guitarist Eric Johnson, bassist Matt Gentling, and drummer Mark Price, all originally from Asheville, NC, formed Archers of Loaf in the early 1990s.

In other snapshots, the gentling of Speaker Newt Gingrich's image included a cutaway from his kinder, folksier speech (in praise of beach volleyball, among other national virtues) to an actual tail-wagging yellow dog, the time-worn nonpareil touch of American human interest story making.

Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin, pioneered this gentling of traditional material with his Juvenile Library, and her 1820 story, "Maurice, or The Fisher's Cot," resembles his progressive nursery fare: it's a classic fairy tale about a foundling restored to family and high social status.

Be gentle with us, we would love to meet you.

He could no longer hope to be gentle with her.

I had never met any man so gentle and kind.

You are the most gentle man I have ever known.

How could she have thought he was gentle and kind?

But to me he has always been kind and gentle.

But then she did not want him to be gentle.

She had not been gentle since coming into my room.

And yet the look in his eyes was always gentle.

She had been learning a lot about gentle men recently.

Say, do you know why he took her off so gentle?

He would have to be more than usually gentle with her.

She is gentle with her father, you should see them together.

Then I hope you didn't show him your gentle side.

He was said to be a very gentle and kind person.

But then he will be a bit more gentle with other guys.

He was a gentle man in every sense and a natural teacher.

I think as a group we were very gentle with one another.

His voice was gentle now because he'd come to know her.

He seems a very gentle man, and a good friend to you.

I hope you plan to be more gentle than the last time.

And in the name of God be gentle, she said to herself.

A bit more rest and I can think about some gentle training.