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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Gentle
 
  Gentle as a fawn.
            —Irish Ballad		  1
  Gentle as a love-sick maid.
            —Aphra Behn		  2
  Gentle as a turtle-dove.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  3
  As gentle as the lover’s sighs.
            —Claudian		  4
  Gentle as the moon.
            —Richard Henry Dana (1787–1879)		  5
  Gentle and placid as Socrates.
            —Alphonse Daudet		  6
  Gentle as sleep.
            —Lord De Tabley		  7
  Gentle as a feather-stroke.
            —George Eliot		  8
  Gentle as the falling dew.
            —Hesiod (Cooke)		  9
  Voice gentle as the breeze that plays in the evening among the spices of Sahara.
            —Dr. Samuel Johnson		  10
  More gentle than the wind in summer.
            —John Keats		  11
  As gentle an’ soft as the sweet summer air.
            —Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu		  12
  Gentle as truth.
            —William James Linton		  13
  Gentle as chaines that honor binde.
            —Richard Lovelace		  14
  Gentle as a sigh love-fraught.
            —Evan MacColl		  15
            Gentle, loving, kind
Like Mary singing to her mangered child.
            —George MacDonald		  16
  Gentle as infancy.
            —William Thompson Price		  17
  Gentle as the cradle-babe.
            —William Shakespeare		  18
            They are as gentle
As zephyrs blowing below the violet.
            —William Shakespeare		  19
Gentyll as faucoun  Or hauke of the towre.
            —John Skelton		  20
  Gentle as eve.
            —John Taylor		  21
Music that gentler on the spirit lies,  Than tir’d eyelids upon tir’d eyes.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  22
  The queen as soft and gentle, like a moonbeam white and fair.
            —Ludwig Uhland		  23
  Gentle as an infant child.
            —William Wordsworth		  24
  Gentle as the morning light.
            —William Wordsworth		  25
  Gentle as a jay on tree.
            —Worlde and the Chylde		  26
 
 
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