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Gently in sentence

382 examples of Gently in a sentence

'One must try,' she said gently.
'Allow me not to believe that,' Oblonsky rejoined gently.
The boy, blushing and not answering, gently withdrew his hand from his uncle's grasp.
Now, you should say something, so that... just a few words, you know, of encouragement; you do it so well,' he added with an affectionate, respectful and solicitous smile, gently pushing Koznyshev forward by the arm.
While he was harnessing his beast to re-descend, the carman added gently, addressing himself to the horse:"Won't do to chatter, lazy good-for-nothing!
She gently placed her in her still warm bed, and put her to sleep again, giving her a finger to suck.
" He led her gently with his arm round her waist.
Souvarine, having blown away the cigarette-end which was sticking to his lips, was already gently lifting the big rabbit beneath the belly to place it on the ground.
Then, in the midst of the angry silence, he added gently:"On the whole, I shouldn't say no if it amuses you; it ruins the one side and kills the other, and that is always so much cleared away.
"Gently! said Richomme at last, "we are getting near.
He thought for a moment that he was about to fall down the whole five hundred and eighty metres of the mine, but at last he felt a rung, and descended gently.
Fearing to yield to the desire to enter with her, he drew her towards the road, and explained to her as gently as possible that she was compromising him in the eyes of his mates, that she was compromising the political cause.
"Go gently," he said to the coachman, "for the road is atrocious.
He got up behind Madame Grégoire and Cécile, and while the other carriage went along by the canal, theirs gently ascended the slope.
At last he lifted her gently, and a great shudder passed over her.
"And could you kindly tell me what everybody knows?" he asked me in a gently ironic tone.
By 8:30 the Nautilus's skiff had just run gently aground on a sandy strand, after successfully clearing the ring of coral that surrounds Gueboroa Island.
Coming from well out, a mild swell made the skiff roll gently, and a few cresting billows lapped at its bow.
"Well, Mr. Naturalist," the Canadian asked in a gently mocking tone, "and how about that Mediterranean?""We're floating on its surface, Ned my friend."
I could hear the ballast tanks filling little by little, and the Nautilus sank gently beneath the surface of the waves.
But I enlightened the fine lad and let him down gently by giving him various details on the laying of this cable.
Staying on the surface of the water, it rolled gently, sometimes to one side, sometimes to the other.
I opened it gently.
She trembled as she blew back the tissue paper over the engraving and saw it folded in two and fall gently against the page.
A river flowed under a bridge; through the mist one could distinguish buildings with thatched roofs scattered over the field bordered by two gently sloping, well timbered hillocks, and in the background amid the trees rose in two parallel lines the coach houses and stables, all that was left of the ruined old chateau.
The meadow stretches under a bulge of low hills to join at the back with the pasture land of the Bray country, while on the eastern side, the plain, gently rising, broadens out, showing as far as eye can follow its blond cornfields.
She wore a small blue silk necktie, that kept up like a ruff a gauffered cambric collar, and with the movements of her head the lower part of her face gently sunk into the linen or came out from it.
And he closed the door gently.
Her eyes with their long curved lashes looked straight before her, and though wide open, they seemed slightly puckered by the cheek-bones, because of the blood pulsing gently under the delicate skin.
And he at once took down from the shelf Emma's boots, all coated with mud, the mud of the rendezvous, that crumbled into powder beneath his fingers, and that he watched as it gently rose in a ray of sunlight.
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