Gentlesome

A timid and gentlesome frog approached her, gravely bowed in a groove below her flexed kneecap.

'Yes, Else,' I said, my voice quiet & most gentlesome. “You are not mistaken, & then I raised my veil & smiled wide, wide, wide. [...]”

Not that he weren't capable of a gentlesome word or a tender touch, but such as that come to him less natural than any living creature I ever seen.

Even more surprising was how he loved to rock Annie Mae, talk to her in the most gentlesome way.