But the voice's gentle insistence drew them open.

"You can be Weyrwoman," he repeated with gentle insistence.

Finally I felt someone's hands separate us, with gentle insistence.

"Well," he said with gentle insistence, "suppose you tell me exactly what it is you want to know."

His hands moved over her with gentle insistence.

He touched her higher on the arm, on the bulge before the elbow, and left his hand there for a moment, in gentle insistence.

He cares for you, you know,' he said with gentle insistence.

Jay was woken by a hand shaking her shoulder with gentle insistence.

Mark stood there staring until the heat got so intense that even Sprout backed up, tugging her daddy's hand with gentle insistence.

I know what I know,' he said, and she found the gentle insistence in his tone a little frightening.