He stiffened like a board in the gentle arms of The Shadow.

He put a surprisingly gentle arm around Catherine and led her aside.

Simon had put his other arm around her, gentle but insistent, and now they were pressed together, body against body.

F'neldril laid a gentle arm across his shoulders to support him.

Her voice rose, and he slipped a gentle arm around her shoulders.

He placed a gentle arm about the youngster's shoulders.

But then, just as she was about to surrender herself to the gentle arms of sleep, she heard something.

A gentle arm turned her away from the grave.

It felt exactly as if gentle arms were carrying Atlantis home again.

He put a gentle arm around her thin shoulders and said, 'There there now.