ungentle
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You would not think that brow could e'er Ungentle moods express, Yet seemed it, in this troubled world, Too calm for gentleness, When the very star that shines from far Shines trembling ne'ertheless.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
The soft hair Veiling her placid brow is all unbound, Ungentle hands are mine but, trained by love, She might conceive them gentle—yet, I pause— I’ll not disturb her thought .
From Fires of Driftwood by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone
It easeth him that toils and him that's sorry; It makes the deaf to hear, to see the blind; Ungentle sleep, thou helpest all but me!
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote
Ungentle and unmerciful the girl had been, yet gentler and more merciful than she!
From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Comer, Cornelia A. P.
Ungentle, not heedful is this, Fergus my master!
From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Dunn, Joseph
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