gentle-handed

The eyes of the Turk as he lay there followed her as she walked toward one of her deft, gentle-handed assistant nurses who, in their neat uniforms with their olive-brown faces framed in dark hair, went from bed to bed tending the patients; giving medicine to a boy here, shaking up a pillow for a sick man there, taking a patient's temperature yonder.

The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

Between the labourers injured by accident in the forest and the wounded from Iroquois fights, the gentle-handed nurse and her assistants were kept always busy.

The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness Thomas Guthrie Marquis 1900

But a new vision of the plains life came to her as she watched him, gentle-handed, swift, but unhurried, never giving an inch to the enemy in fighting with death for the life of Jim Shirley.

Winning the Wilderness Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

Isabel coloured and sighed; but added, that it would be infinite relief on the children's account to keep some one so gentle-handed, and so entirely to be trusted.

Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862