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Time was, that word was so inflammatory as to need a euphemism: fib was the slang gentler, prevarication the bookish term.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Time was, that word was so inflammatory as to need a euphemism: fib was the slang gentler, prevarication the bookish term.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

When trout are surface feeding in gentler currents near subtle cutbanks, cast a dry fly down and accross.

Big Trout Hideouts 2003

My friends wished me to go to the south, for I have always loved the sunshine, and there my little daughter died, and perhaps death will there come to me in gentler shape.

The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance 1893

The change of scene operated to a great degree as I expected; after a year's absence, Perdita returned in gentler and more docile mood to Windsor.

I.10 1826

NGUYEN: So while British soldiers are praised for their so - called gentler approach to the policing the region, Shiites insists their presence creates targets for attackers.

CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2006 2006

Show me that rose, or but one leaf of it, were it withered as my heart is — if it should be in my fiercest and wildest movements of rage against a hateful world, still it will recall gentler thoughts to my bosom, and perhaps afford happier prospects to thine.

The Black Dwarf 2004

Attractions begin in that way, sometimes, where the gentler is the stronger, the frailer, the dominant character; and the root is in the feminine instinct to care for, develop, and make the most of what palpably needs a protectorate.

The Firing Line 1899

Show me that rose, or but one leaf of it, were it withered as my heart is --- if it should be in my fiercest and wildest movements of rage against a hateful world, still it will recall gentler thoughts to my bosom, and perhaps afford happier prospects to thine.

The Black Dwarf 1898

More than that: the more fully the communal possession of land has been maintained, the better and the gentler are the habits.

Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881