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1  He touched me gently on the forehead, and went out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
2  Then, he gently let it sink upon his breast again, with his own hands lying on it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
3  But they returned with a gentle tone upon them that softened even the edge of Tickler.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
4  But Wemmick was equally untiring and gentle in his vigilance, and the Aged read on, quite unconscious of his many rescues.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
5  She put her hand, which was a comfortable hand though roughened by work, upon my hands, one after another, and gently took them out of my hair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
6  I have often thought him since, like the steam-hammer that can crush a man or pat an egg-shell, in his combination of strength with gentleness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
7  And seeing that Mr. Jaggers stood quite still and silent, and apparently quite obdurate, under this appeal, I turned to Wemmick, and said, "Wemmick, I know you to be a man with a gentle heart."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
8  When I had taken leave of the pretty, gentle, dark-eyed girl, and of the motherly woman who had not outlived her honest sympathy with a little affair of true love, I felt as if the Old Green Copper Ropewalk had grown quite a different place.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI