In a soft way

Usage examples of gently.

He was still absentmindedly rubbing his hands, as if they hurt him, and Taniquel came and took them gently into her own, holding them cradled softly between her soft fingers.

A servo arm located behind the bar, which glowed with its own colony of bioluminescent bacteria, gently picked up the aerogel cylinder and placed it in sequence behind half a dozen other empties, to be refilled in its turn.

More gently than previous was my head raised so, and sight of his eyes showed a great annoyance aflicker there.

In a dry skillet, gently roast oats, cashews, macadamia nut, and almonds over medium heat.

It was cut into a gently rising slope of grass, and critics had complained that it was antiheroic and nearly invisible.

The four men, for Gust could not be prevailed upon to accompany the party, fell to the oars, using them paddle-wise, while some of the apes followed their example, and presently the ungainly skiff was moving quietly out to sea in the direction of the light which rose and fell gently with the swell.

Maybe you think I overreacted, but by sliding gently back and forth, one can slip stockings off the legs.

Crane and Mavranos stood braced on the gray-painted tar paper deck as the engine gunned and the boat surged gently out onto the face of the water, and they watched the palm trees and boat masts and low buildings of Balboa Island draw closer.

A groom led the ponies and the two nursemaids formed a chattering rear guard The road Richard chose sloped gently down towards the river, levelling out where the Balmoral bank sloped steeply down to the waterside.

Lessons with Ur mainly consisted of learning the names and histories of the tens of thousands of Banes represented by the tree seedlings gently swaying in their tiny terracotta pots.

She was kneeling beside Porculata, murmuring gently, massaging oil into her tartan-patterned hide, while Baraboo and Barnum watched silently from cushions to one side of the room.

Pinckney gently and beadily makes us realize that Satan is the emblem of the nullification of self-blame.

He reached forth and, gently, touched Slave Beads about the throat, as she poured the drink.

The bees on the comb moved closer together, into a ball, and the ones,on the outside began gently to fan their wings for the proper circulation of heat from the massed bodies of the bees.

The Miami Biltmore Hotel loomed above this contrived, palm-bordered landscape, a sprawling hacienda gone out of control, with a central tower adjoining an assortment of wings to face in a gently curving C the putting greens that were its lawn.