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Gentleness

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Gentleness
Brown, Matilda
meek, mild heroine. [Br. Lit.: Cranford]
Casper
the Friendly Ghost meek little ghost who desires only to make friends. [Comics: Horn, 162]
Cordelia
gentle daughter of Lear. [Br. Lit.: King Lear]
Eliante
her kind heart contrasted with Celimene’s caustic wit. [Fr. Lit.: Le Misanthrope]
Gentle Ben
massive but extremely tame bear. [TV: Terrace, I, 302]
mallow
traditional symbol of gentleness or mildness. [Plant Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175]
March, Beth
the domestic, sensitive, sweater-knitting March daughter. [Am. Lit.: Little Women]
Virgilia
meek, gentle wife of Coriolanus. [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus]
Wilkes, Melanie
gentle, mild-mannered, dutiful Southern wife. [Am. Lit.: Gone With the Wind]
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After a time, perceiving the meekness and gentleness of the beast's temper, he summoned courage enough to approach him.
Fables by Aesop View in context
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?
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
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