Adjective : a gentle manner. ,a gentle wind; a gentle tap on the shoulder. ,gentle heat. ,a gentle slope. ,a gentle upbringing. ,a gentle animal. ,a gentle sound. ,Consider, gentle reader, my terrible predicament at this juncture. ,a gentle knight.    From Dictionary.com. 

It may be called the gentlest of Shakespeare's plays.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Shakespeare] Reference

Of all wild animals the most easily tamed and the gentlest is the elephant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

But it wasn't what you might call the gentlest town in the world before the war, I remember.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nightmare Begins]

These are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the last of whom is described as the gentlest of the team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference

In Rosalie it spoke in gentlest sighs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent] Reference

The gentlest are the sternest when enraged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Custer, and Other Poems.] Reference

"Stephen was the kindest, gentlest soul," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queer Sighted] Reference

It is the gentlest thing imaginable, but effectual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

To his folk the most gentlest, most yearning of fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

The eleventh was the noblest, yet the gentlest of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories in Verse] Reference

"No hurt," he said, in the gentlest tone he could muster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference

The gentlest, harmlessest creetur as ever was a neighbor is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

The same spokesman, perhaps the gentlest of the four, began.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference

"I know, old man, I know," said Steve in his gentlest voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference

Even at its gentlest, canyoneering can be unpredictably dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wall Of Black Water] Reference

Some of the men, on the other hand, were of the gentlest disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics] Reference

Argile -- burgh or landward -- the best bred and gentlest of them, I mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

And then in the gentlest possible way Miss Thompson had produced the letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference

I'd moved a few steps nearer the stage when I felt the gentlest tug at my hip.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Great Magic] Reference

Her look softened at once, and when she spoke again 'twas in her gentlest tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

It flushes and cleanses the system thoroughly, and in the gentlest way possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

He was a strange combination: a great soldier and yet one of the gentlest of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference

Keeping the track where the slope of the hill is gentlest, we pass on the right Loch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

I know of her as the noblest creature and the gentlest and wisest that ever was born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French] Reference

A giant of power is ever the gentlest, having the hand of steel in the glove of silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference

"He was just the sweetest, gentlest, kind soul, and I can't believe he's gone," she added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beer Distributor Shooting: Profiles Of The Victims] Reference

It is strange how soon even the gentlest natures gain a familiarity with suffering and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

"The business is so crude and brutish and forceful with the gentlest of objects," says Young.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Young At Heart] Reference

He obeys because he is terrorized, and is of all domestic animals the gentlest and most docile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Mrs. Barraclough lived in the sweetly named village of Clyst St. Mary where you will find Devon at its gentlest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

With the "Lapwing" in tow, and the gentlest of breezes filling the lighter canvas, we shape our course eastward.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

Indeed, from being the proudest Toy in the shop she became the meekest and gentlest -- kind and thoughtful to all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference

The whole should be painted in pure orange, with the gentlest possible after-touch of vermilion towards the corner under the curl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

Nebuchadnezzar said in his gentlest tones; for he saw that the dream meant something bad, and that Daniel did not like to tell him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

Night after night the Colonel sat by his bed, tending him as gently as the gentlest nurse, and placing cool grapes in his parched mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of General Gordon] Reference