If a clever, kind, gentlehanded little girl could get a crumb of bread down their throats, it would do no harm; but all rough, violent, clumsy manipulation is as bad as the throat-tickling of the hard-fingered hangman.
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Gentlehanded
Synonyms for "gentlehanded"
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...you went in but where you hurried every Sunday morning to scramble up on the huge bed, much bigger than your own bed, to bury yourself between Her softness and sweetsmellingness and His hardstubbled, gentlehanded roughness.
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The emergency cars still answer all routine calls and one night a gentlehanded surgeon found himself helping to disarm a maniac with a shotgun.
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“So,” he agreed, beguiled by her keen-eyed, gentlehanded exploration.
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