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Definition of Gentled
1. gentle [v] - See also: gentle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentled
Literary usage of Gentled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Hawaii by Charmian London (1917)
"Among them one is gentled and loved into thinking well of oneself and all mankind.
"I love them, I love them, Mate. I have Aloha nui loa for them, ..."
2. Tachyhippodamia: Or, The New Secret of Taming Horses by John Solomon Rarey, Willis J. Powell (1872)
"REFRACTORY HORSES gentled FOR A LONG TIME IN THE COMMON WAY. I begin first with
those which are afraid of a gun, or the like. Cause a pen to be made, ..."
3. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister (1904)
""Shorty is kind to animals," he said. " He has gentled that ... gentled him
wonderful. When a man is kind to dumb animals, I always say he had got some good ..."
4. Parables from Nature by Alfred Gatty, Paul de Longpré (1893)
"... breaker " gentled " him all over his miserable frame, as he lay panting and
overpowered on the sawdust, conquered and convinced at last, ..."
5. The Thyroid Gland: Clinics of George W. Crile and Associates by George Washington Crile, Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1922)
""This is interpreted on the basis of our present knowledge to be possibly due to
an inherently lesser production in the gentled rats of certain known ..."
6. The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses by John Solomon Rarey (1858)
"As soon as you have gentled the colt a little, take the halter in your left hand
and approach him as before, and on the same side that you have gentled him. ..."
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