light hand

Don't use a light hand--your chicken will look quite green when you've done it right.

When next she knew anything save her grief, she heard a light hand thrusting back the curtains from her bed.

We had reached the soup, and Bates was changing our plates with his accustomed light hand.

"A soldier, you would say," whispered a soft voice, as a light hand gently touched my shoulder.

Brian was aroused from a maze of wretched, confused thought by the touch of Gretchen's light hand upon his arm.

How good it had been, as a child, to feel the light hand on her hair!