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382 examples of Gently in a sentence

I had looped it round slowly and cautiously, and tied it up in the middle, and folded it in two, and laid it down gently at the bottom of the boat.
He calls to them to stop, quite gently and politely at first.
It was where the tow-path shelves gently down into the water, and we were camping on the opposite bank, noticing things in general.
Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our little tear-stained faces up to hers, and smiles; and, though she does not speak, we know what she would say, and lay our hot flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone.
WE caught a breeze, after lunch, which took us gently up past Wargrave and Shiplake.
I watched him gently let down into the water, and saw him scramble out, sad and wet.
But this short conversation made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist.
"Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her.
As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work.
The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had been working for them, swayed gently in all directions.
He released her hands, and laying his own on her head gently, continued, "If the blessing of a stranger can profit you, receive it."
The surface of the water which had so lately been lashing the shores with boisterous fury, was already losing its ruffled darkness in the long and regular undulations that succeeded a tempest, while the light air from the southwest was gently touching their summits, lending its feeble aid in stilling the waters.
The brother made no reply; but returning the fondness expressed in her eye by a look of fraternal tenderness, he gently pressed her hand in silence; when Caesar, who had participated largely in the anxiety of the family, and who had risen with the dawn, and kept a vigilant watch on the surrounding objects, as he stood gazing from one of the windows, exclaimed with a face that approached to something like the hues of a white man,-"Run - Massa Harry - run - if he love old Caesar, run - here come a rebel horse."
Disregarding all but the fact that his father still lived, the peddler stole gently into the room of his dying parent.
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."
"Gently - gently, my friend," said the surgeon.
"See," said Sarah, gently pushing her aunt aside, and pointing to the glimmering ruins, "the windows are illuminated in honor of my arrival.
Hear me, Colonel Singleton; as God will listen to your dying prayers, hear me, and spare my brother!""Remove her," said the colonel, gently endeavoring to extricate his hand; but none appeared disposed to obey.
"I speak in pity to myself," returned the brother, gently removing Frances from the arms of her aunt.
"Would you plunge a soul into the fiery furnace, and a minister at hand to point out the straight and narrow path?""I'll tell you what, good woman," returned the corporal, gently pushing her away; "I've no notion of my back being a highway for any man to walk to heaven upon.
"He turns from his charger, and looks the other way, now trot on gently - not so fast - not so fast.
"There is none here but my God and you; and by His sacred name, I conjure you to remember your promise, and save my brother!"Harper gently raised her from her knees, and placed her on the stool, begging her at the same time to be composed, and to acquaint him with the nature of her errand.
She waited not for his answer, but gently forced him through the door, and closed it with her own hands.
She bent towards him and timidly took one of his hands, while with the other she gently removed the curls from his burning brow.
His hair shone in the setting sun like ringlets of gold, as the air from the falls gently moved the rich curls from a forehead whose whiteness showed that exposure and heat alone had given their darker hue to a face glowing with health.
Mary gave him a tin basin of water and a piece of soap, and he went outside the door and set the basin on a little bench there; then he dipped the soap in the water and laid it down; turned up his sleeves; poured out the water on the ground, gently, and then entered the kitchen and began to wipe his face diligently on the towel behind the door.
Tom gently put it back.
Her eyes watered a little, and she put her hand on Tom's head and said gently:"I was meaning for the best, Tom.
Tom went to the door and began to softly lift the latch; then he pressed gently and the door yielded a crack; he continued pushing cautiously, and quaking every time it creaked, till he judged he might squeeze through on his knees; so he put his head through and began, warily.
CHAPTER XXXAS the earliest suspicion of dawn appeared on Sunday morning, Huck came groping up the hill and rapped gently at the old Welshman's door.
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