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Gentleness Brown, Matilda meek, mild heroine. [Br. Lit.: Cranford] the Friendly Ghost meek little ghost who desires only to make friends. [Comics: Horn, 162] gentle daughter of Lear. [Br. Lit.: King Lear] her kind heart contrasted with Celimene’s caustic wit. [Fr. Lit.: Le Misanthrope] massive but extremely tame bear. [TV: Terrace, I, 302] traditional symbol of gentleness or mildness. [Plant Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175]
the domestic, sensitive, sweater-knitting March daughter. [Am. Lit.: Little Women] meek, gentle wife of Coriolanus. [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus] gentle, mild-mannered, dutiful Southern wife. [Am. Lit.: Gone With the Wind] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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After a time, perceiving the meekness and gentleness of the beast's temper, he summoned courage enough to approach him.
Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Henry van der Luyden, tall, spare and frock-coated, with faded fair hair, a straight nose like his wife's and the same look of frozen gentleness in eyes that were merely pale grey instead of pale blue. |
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