gentleness.

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Gray-haired, with a sculpted face and an authoritative, courtly Fred Thompson voice, he has the bearing of an elder statesman, tempered by a certain gentleness.

Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008
Gray-haired, with a sculpted face and an authoritative, courtly Fred Thompson voice, he has the bearing of an elder statesman, tempered by a certain gentleness.

Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008
It seemed to radiate love of beauty (the flowers), love of God (the Cross and statue of Mary), and love of order and learning, enclosed in gentleness.

Archive 2007-02-01 Linda 2007
It seemed to radiate love of beauty (the flowers), love of God (the Cross and statue of Mary), and love of order and learning, enclosed in gentleness.

In Praise of Marguerite de Angeli 1 Linda 2007
She is standing in the kitchen doorway, staring at him with a kind of gentleness.

Calling A Dead Man Cross, Gillian 2001
I daresay if he had brought me up as a boy, we should mostly have been at odds; yet we felt liking now, and a kind of gentleness.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
With opportunity for ranting in every second speech, he never ranted, but played what might well have been a roaring part with a kind of gentleness.

Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905