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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Gently
 
  Gently as to make no more noise than a spider attaching its thread.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  1
  Gently as a rabbit goes.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  2
      Gently, like the morning’s light,  Shedding, unmark’d, an influence soft and bright,  Till all the landscape gather in the sight.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  3
  Gently as a lamb.
            —Alice Cary		  4
  Gently as an angel’s hand.
            —Charles Dickens		  5
  Gently as falls a mother’s tender speech.
            —Julia C. R. Dorr		  6
  Breathe as gently, as a perfumed pair of sucking bellows, in some sweet lady’s chamber.
            —John Ford		  7
  Gently like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.
            —William Hamilton Gibson		  8
  Falling as gently as an answer to a prayer.
            —Adelaide A. Procter		  9
  Gently as the dew mingles with the darkening maze.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  10
  Gently as any sucking dove.
            —William Shakespeare		  11
  Gently as the twilight takes the parting day.
            —Thomas Ward		  12
  Gently, as morning-dews distil.
            —Isaac Watts		  13
 
 
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