"Will you see that they get me a nice, gentle horse?"
It is a gentle horse, to be sure, and Sherry is held in the arms of another rider.
They are powerful and sound, but very gentle horses.
There was no reason under the sun to abuse an animal as that big, gentle horse had been abused.
"A grown man ought to have sense enough to seek gentle horses."
You couldn't have asked for a sweeter, gentler horse for two little boys.
"But then, I am afraid even of the gentlest horses."
He might have been trying to gentle a spooked horse.
At the stable he picked a gentle horse, and they were soon out of range of either public observation or hearing.
"Not when you have a gentle horse," said Carrie.