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  • He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.

    Chapter 8 2010

  • And yet she is only a woman -- I tell her so; I tell her that there are at least seven hundred and fifty millions of two-legged, long-haired, gentle-voiced, soft-bodied, female humans like her on the planet, and that she is really swamped by the immensity of numbers of her sex and kind.

    CHAPTER XLIX 2010

  • A gentle-voiced pianist known as much for his trademark windowpane eyeglasses as for his work with everyone from Duke Ellington to young lions like James Carter and Terence Blanchard, Taylor is the public face of a marginalized art.

    How Billy Taylor sparked a love of jazz Marc Fisher 2010

  • Psych-folk-rock-jazz singer/songwriter Tim Buckley came out of the '60s Orange County music scene as a gentle-voiced phenom.

    Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 122 2010

  • The preacher, a gentle-voiced man of great renown in evangelical circles, reveals a feverishly competitive nature.

    Pistol Mark Kriegel 2007

  • The preacher, a gentle-voiced man of great renown in evangelical circles, reveals a feverishly competitive nature.

    Pistol Mark Kriegel 2007

  • The preacher, a gentle-voiced man of great renown in evangelical circles, reveals a feverishly competitive nature.

    Pistol Mark Kriegel 2007

  • "His father never did that," she said, gentle-voiced.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • "His father never did that," she said, gentle-voiced.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • “His father never did that,” she said, gentle-voiced.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

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