Example Sentences

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Fitzsimmons had gentled plenty of miscreants, but he had no answers for Hard Tack.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

She’d had great hopes for Spot’s making us a real milk cow, especially after Old Yeller had gentled her so fast; but that was all gone now.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

We had gentled two hundred the spring before, and breaking a hundred and fifty now, together with the old remudas, would give Las Palomas fully five hundred saddle horses.

From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy

Across the lane his horse, the one he had "gentled" for her, was grazing idly.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen

She felt her own ability to handle any horse on the range although old Cal Warren had gentled every animal she had wanted for her own and flatly refused to let her mount any others.

From The Settling of the Sage by Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)