"Ungentle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I am sure, be surprised at this answer. Madame Duval is by no means a proper companion or guardian for a young woman: she is at once uneducated and unprincipled; ungentle in temper, and unamiable in her manners. I have long known that she has persuaded herself to harbour an aversion for me-Unhappy woman! I can only regard her as an ...
— Evelina • Fanny Burney
... rude ungentle words They scoff and bid me fly to thee! O give me shelter in thy breast! ...
— Poems of Coleridge • Coleridge, ed Arthur Symons
... "Such the ungentle sport that oft invites The Spanish maid, and cheers the Spanish swain, Nurtured in blood betimes, his heart delights In vengeance, gloating ...
— Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... O'Halloran's ungentle knock, on the heels of which his red head came through the ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine
... Paulus that night was coming on, and was startled, when the hermit removed her hand from his arm with ungentle haste, and called to her to follow him with a roughness that was quite new to him. She obeyed, and wherever it was necessary to climb over the rocks, he supported and lifted her, but he only spoke when ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
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