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Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness,
The Tempest 2004
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"Amedee," said she, looking at the young man with a serious gentleness,
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"It is not why you should," his wife said with studied gentleness,
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand
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Which since have steaded [378-49] much; so, of his gentleness,
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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"He might have been," said the young Countess with grave gentleness,
In the Border Country Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918
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Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness,
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He knew the significance of her voice; displeasure was in its gentleness,
A Fountain Sealed Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904
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I went far to make it worse, since, under the spell of her gentleness,
Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People" Gilbert Parker 1897
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"Now, mother," said she in a voice of determined gentleness,
Stories of a Western Town Octave Thanet 1892
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"I cannot think it well for anyone to believe in a lie," said Aubrey slowly, taken aback despite himself by Gherardi's sudden gentleness,
The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889
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