Example Sentences

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So coming, it makes the hard heart tender, the rude will gentle, the selfish soul generous, gives the reckless a new sense of responsibility.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

Not more than sixteen I should say, and yet what an invincible will shone from her dark eyes and dignified her slender form; a will gentle as it was strong, elevated as it was unbending.

From A Strange Disappearance by Green, Anna Katharine

Hoping six months on the Kiowa range will gentle her quite a lot, I am sympathetically your 1/2 brother, Simeon.

From The Ramblin' Kid by Bowman, Earl Wayland