Gently in example sentence
His patient smiled, as he gently repulsed his physician in an attempt to undo the bandages, and with a returning glow to his cheeks, inquired,-"Do, Archibald," - a term of endearment that seldom failed to soften the operator's heart, - "tell me what spirit from heaven has been gliding around my apartment, while I lay pretending to sleep?""If anyone interferes with my patients," cried the doctor, hastily, "I will teach them, spirit or no spirit, what it is to meddle with another man's concerns."