Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Gently
Gently as to make no more noise than a spider attaching its thread.
—Honoré de Balzac
Gently as a rabbit goes.
—R. D. Blackmore
Gently, like the morning’s light,Shedding, unmark’d, an influence soft and bright,Till all the landscape gather in the sight.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gently as a lamb.
—Alice Cary
Gently as an angel’s hand.
—Charles Dickens
Gently as falls a mother’s tender speech.
—Julia C. R. Dorr
Breathe as gently, as a perfumed pair of sucking bellows, in some sweet lady’s chamber.
—John Ford
Gently like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.
—William Hamilton Gibson
Falling as gently as an answer to a prayer.
—Adelaide A. Procter
Gently as the dew mingles with the darkening maze.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Gently as any sucking dove.
—William Shakespeare
Gently as the twilight takes the parting day.
—Thomas Ward
Gently, as morning-dews distil.
—Isaac Watts