Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentiest
Literary usage of Gentiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1846)
"104,) "On all ether subjects the wisest of the wise, the gentiest of the gentle,
the bravest of the brave, yet, when one topic was introduced, ..."
2. Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases by James Main Dixon (1891)
"I say she's the best, the kindest, the gentiest, the sweetest girl in England,
and that, bankrupt or no, my sisters are not fit to hold candles to her. ..."
3. The Junior Hymnal by Edwin Allison Schell, Mary Chisholm Foster (1895)
"II '•+•*•++ It go-cth up like sparkling mist From streams by gentiest zephyrs
kiss'd. That wine which heaviest grief allays, And o-pens sleep-ing lips to ..."
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