Gentler

Time was, that word was so inflammatory as to need a euphemism: fib was the slang gentler, prevarication the bookish term. ❋ William Safire (2004)

When trout are surface feeding in gentler currents near subtle cutbanks, cast a dry fly down and accross. ❋ Unknown (2003)

My friends wished me to go to the south, for I have always loved the sunshine, and there my little daughter died, and perhaps death will there come to me in gentler shape. ❋ Unknown (1893)

The change of scene operated to a great degree as I expected; after a year's absence, Perdita returned in gentler and more docile mood to Windsor. ❋ Unknown (1826)

NGUYEN: So while British soldiers are praised for their so - called gentler approach to the policing the region, Shiites insists their presence creates targets for attackers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Show me that rose, or but one leaf of it, were it withered as my heart is — if it should be in my fiercest and wildest movements of rage against a hateful world, still it will recall gentler thoughts to my bosom, and perhaps afford happier prospects to thine. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Attractions begin in that way, sometimes, where the gentler is the stronger, the frailer, the dominant character; and the root is in the feminine instinct to care for, develop, and make the most of what palpably needs a protectorate. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Show me that rose, or but one leaf of it, were it withered as my heart is --- if it should be in my fiercest and wildest movements of rage against a hateful world, still it will recall gentler thoughts to my bosom, and perhaps afford happier prospects to thine. ❋ Unknown (1898)

More than that: the more fully the communal possession of land has been maintained, the better and the gentler are the habits. ❋ Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1881)

They had very scanty ideas either of religion or civilization, but were not idolaters, and had a good many of what Judson calls the gentler virtues of savages, though their habits were lazy and dirty. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

Show me that rose, or but one leaf of it, were it withered as my heart is -- if it should be in my fiercest and wildest movements of rage against a hateful world, still it will recall gentler thoughts to my bosom, and perhaps afford happier prospects to thine. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

The so-called gentler sex may opt for such tactics because they are socialized to not show hostility openly and also because their relative lack of physical strength makes violence seem a less promising strategy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You could be taken by con artists who try to prey on the so-called gentler sex. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Venergy Australia is a visionary energy company committed to discovering new forms or sources of clean and renewable energy - the kind of energy the company called gentler energy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He recalls a gentler era, when neighbourly values kept citizens close to their faith.

I would very much like to see which of our Senators and members of Congress are willing to stand up and make that statement to the one hundred and fifty two million of us of the "gentler" sex. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This dojo does not teach the "gentler" arts, such as tai chi most don't and wouldn't. ❋ Brigindo (2008)