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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

Gently as a rabbit goes.
—R. D. Blackmore

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

Gently as a lamb.
—Alice Cary

Gently as an angel’s hand.
—Charles Dickens

Gently as falls a mother’s tender speech.
—Julia C. R. Dorr

Breathe as gently, as a perfumed pair of sucking bellows, in some sweet lady’s chamber.
—John Ford

Gently like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.
—William Hamilton Gibson

Falling as gently as an answer to a prayer.
—Adelaide A. Procter

Gently as the dew mingles with the darkening maze.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Gently as any sucking dove.
—William Shakespeare

Gently as the twilight takes the parting day.
—Thomas Ward

Gently, as morning-dews distil.
—Isaac Watts