gentle handling

Now, at the period of its keenest receptive powers, a delicate and sensitive thing needing very gentle handling.

At length, growing accustomed to the gentle handling of the Indian girl, it poked out its beak and took a sip.

A few minutes' more gentle handling left the instrument sufficiently clean to enable him to appreciate its chief points.

In the glost kiln the ware requires gentle handling and must touch nothing but the spur or support.

The gentle handling of the tumour and the employment of a drainage tube for the first forty-eight hours diminishes this risk.