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He read it with an air of singular effort, and yet with a certain tenderness. [6]
He felt her warm tears on his face, and as he looked up into her kind, faithful eyes, brimming over with tears of sympathy and regret, his heart melted to tenderness. [10]
I would always treat any given young person passing through the meteoric showers which rain down on the brief period of adolescence with great tenderness. [6]
Then they seemed to lose their cold glitter, and soften into a strange, dreamy tenderness. [6]
And the fact that the circumstances of that event differed somewhat from those of the present--in regularity, at least, increased rather than detracted from Mrs. Holt's sudden access of tenderness. [9]
She was aware that he had got to his feet, and was standing beside her, speaking with an oddly penetrating tenderness. [9]
He always welcomed such letters--they came as from a lost land of romance, recalled always with tenderness. [5]
She felt a submissive tender love for this man who would never understand all that she understood, and this seemed to make her love for him still stronger and added a touch of passionate tenderness. [2]
Again the same strange, inexplicable feeling of tenderness. [10]
In the past she had raged against him, she had imprisoned him; she had driven him from her presence in her anger, but always her paroxysms of rage had been succeeded by paroxysms of tenderness. [11]

More example sentences with the word tenderness in them

She shrank, and yet again she said that she would rather have his cruelty than another man's tenderness, so long as she knew that she had his-- She paused, and did not say the word. [11]
A half-mad woman, without memory, knew again whence she came and whither she was going; and bewildered and happy, with a hungering tenderness, moved her hand over the head of her poor dwarf, as though she would know if he were truly her own son. [11]
When he was within twenty paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling tenderness and ecstasy such as he had never before known. [2]
The firm "Yes" with which she answered, and her indignant exclamation as she repulsed Hanno's premature attempt at tenderness, might have been heard by the hawk even at a greater distance. [10]
The passionate tenderness with which his mother received him did not please the sixteen-year-old officer. [2]
And I recalled, with mingled bitterness and tenderness, the turn of her head, the down on her neck, the half-revealed curve of her arm.... [9]
She smiled as, with an access of tenderness, in spite of his experience and power she suddenly felt years older than Ditmar. [9]
Her eyes blazed with a wrath new to their tenderness, and, stepping back and stamping her foot; she cried out: "She shall not go! [4]
And now, on what soil had the seed of maternal tenderness fallen? [10]
His reckless nature was subdued, and an emotion of tenderness which he had never experienced before thrilled him as she whispered, "Take me to a place where everybody can see us, but where we need not notice anyone else. [10]
She said she was not satisfied with it, and didn't know whether she would keep it or not; that if she kept it, it would be solely out of tenderness for the King's honor. [5]
In Paris Margaret was ill--very ill; and this misfortune caused for a time a revival of all the old affection, in sympathy with a disappointment which awoke in our womankind all the tenderness of their natures. [4]
And now she was aware that Susan's blue eyes were fixed upon her, and that they had a strange and penetrating quality she had never noticed before: a certain tenderness, an understanding that made Honora redden and turn. [9]
This officer began visiting Pierre, and the princess used to make fun of the tenderness the Italian expressed for him. [2]
The, old man took her hand and looked her in the face, with a wonderful tenderness in his squared features. [6]
The old woman told the story of his young love and his joyous bridal with a tenderness which had something more, even, than her family sympathies to account for it. [6]
She was grateful to have that persecuting subject from her thoughts, and she answered, with much of the old-time tenderness in her tone: "Yes, dear. [5]
Something of tenderness there was, perhaps, in her tone towards him; she would not have sent for him, had she not felt more than an ordinary interest in him. [6]
When he turned there was another expression in his eyes and a note of tenderness in his voice that contradicted the severity of the priest. [4]
Now and again there came some message that brought back the old days--the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn days--or the romance of the river that he never recalled other than with tenderness and a tone of regret that it was gone. [5]
I find in them tones of deep tenderness only, such as have arisen and will arise from sad and aching hearts in every land and every age. [10]
Then he remembered the vows of tenderness he had translated at Kochel's, falteringly repeated them, and fell on one knee before her, like all the heroes in adventures and romances. [10]
The people of the village, too, of whom there was not one but grew to have a fondness for poor Nell; even among them, there was the same feeling; a tenderness towards her--a compassionate regard for her, increasing every day. [12]
The tinge of the rose was in full bloom upon her cheek; the charms of sensibility and tenderness were always her associates.. [5]
The tinge of the rose was in full bloom upon her cheek; the charms of sensibility and tenderness were always her associates. [5]
So, each fearing the other's tenderness, they shunned each other, though an invincible charm constantly drew them together. [10]
I can imagine the heart retaining much tenderness and sympathy with suffering when the soul itself has ceased to struggle for the higher life, when the mind has lost, in regard to life, the final discrimination of what is right and wrong. [4]
This poem has the dignity of "Lycidas" without its refrigerating classicism, and with all the tenderness of Cowper's lines on the receipt of his mother's picture. [6]
It was impossible that some show of personal interest, some tenderness, should not appear. [4]
She shows a tenderness to him that I can't help being interested in. [6]
She remembered the tenderness of his eyes as he looked into hers, and she smiled half gratefully but half displeased at the tender kiss which had been pressed on her lips before she found herself in her father's strong arms. [10]
What softness and tenderness of color in the gray rocks, with the browns and reds of the vines and lichens! [4]
With a movement suggestive of tenderness she was picking up Ditmar's pen to set it in the glass rack when her ear caught the sound of voices, and she stood transfixed, listening intently. [9]
Its exquisite tenderness subdued Lazenby, who, but now, had a heart for slaughter. [11]
Standing where she stood when she had stayed Louis Trudel's arm long ago, with an infinite tenderness she touched the scar- the scar of the cross--on his breast. [11]
But Mavra Kuzminichna stood at the closed gate for some time with moist eyes, pensively swaying her head and feeling an unexpected flow of motherly tenderness and pity for the unknown young officer. [2]
With cautious tenderness she released herself from the arms of the abbess, gazed sorrowfully at her with her large eyes as if beseeching forgiveness then, as she saw her aunt look at her with pained surprise, again threw herself on her breast. [10]
She knew that she must in the first instance expect ill-usage, scorn, and imprisonment in a dark room at the Gaul's hands; but all that seemed to her far more endurable than the tenderness with which he from time to time approached her. [10]
With hungry tenderness she laid it against her breast and pressed its cheek to her own, murmuring and crooning to it. [11]
And afterwards, when she had parted from him, and gone to her little room, the hot flush again came to her neck and brow, and she saw his pale, spiritual face, and could hear the unwonted tenderness of his voice. [4]
Pierre too when she had gone almost ran into the anteroom, restraining tears of tenderness and joy that choked him, and without finding the sleeves of his fur cloak threw it on and got into his sleigh. [2]
She trembled, but she drew near, accompanied by the heavenly odours of the freshened herbs and foliage and the cool tenderness of the river close by. [11]
I would not set her higher than my heart,-- Though she is nobler than I e'er can be; Because she placed me from the crowd apart, And with her tenderness she honoured me. [11]
I mean to say that a genuine poem is capable of absorbing an indefinite amount of the essence of our own humanity,--its tenderness, its heroism, its regrets, its aspirations, so as to be gradually stained through with a divine secondary color derived from ourselves. [6]
Her fingers were resting upon my arm, and she greeted me with a smile all tenderness. [9]
He was still resolved to keep it, but earthly life appeared less short, and he could not conceal from himself that, without Barbara's sunny cheerfulness, bewitching tenderness, and, alas! [10]
She did not resist, marvelling rather at his own steadiness, nor did she then resent a tenderness in his voice. [9]
She had no reproaches, she had only tenderness and pity. [5]
Very likely the remembrance of his tribulations has still something to do with the tenderness felt for him. [4]
His feeling for Rachel Ogden had not been lacking in tenderness, and yet he had recoiled from marriage merely for the sake of getting a wife, albeit one with easy qualification. [9]
In all her prayers she included the name of the handsome heathen and a soft tenderness in which a gentle pity was often infused, a grief for his unredeemed soul, was inseparable from all her thoughts of him. [10]
Cowper, William: Mother's Picture, 178; disinterested good, 304; tenderness, 333; verse, 338. [6]
The words of Philip's letters, from which she had extracted every atom of tenderness they held, were always in her ears. [11]
Like many kind people he made use of brusqueness to hide an inner tenderness, and on the train he was hail fellow well met with every Tom, Dick and Harry that commuted,--although the word was not invented in those days,--and the conductor and brakeman too. [9]
The melancholy of old age has a divine tenderness in it, which only the sad experiences of life can lend a human soul. [6]
All the force of the tenderness she had been feeling for him vanished instantly and was replaced by a feeling of horror at what lay there before her. [2]
These sudden flashes of tenderness for Ditmar startled and angered her. [9]
No warm impulse of paternal tenderness stirred the breast of the man whose heart was hardened, who understood how to divest himself of the warmest love as he now cast aside the crown and the purple of royalty. [10]
Here was one of many instances I could cite of Mr. Watling's tenderness of heart. [9]
In the sunshine of love which smiled upon him his austere zeal turned to considerate tenderness. [10]
There has been, of late, a deference approaching to tenderness, on the part of the boarders generally so far as he is concerned. [6]
With his touch of genius he assigned to everything its true value, moving us to tenderness, to pity, to scorn, to righteous indignation, to sympathy with humanity. [4]
But I find nothing in the manly sentiment and true tenderness of Irving to warrant the sentimental gush of his followers, who missed his corrective humor as completely as they failed to catch his literary art. [4]
But he would not let her go, urging with passionate tenderness his rights as her betrothed, till she tore herself away from him and hurried from the room. [10]
Then he could not help recalling their meetings in the grove of Astarte, her self-forgetting, passionate tenderness, and the wonderfully delicate beauty of her foreign type. [10]
What would she not give for one day of simple tenderness and quiet affection, a true day with a true love! [11]
Yes, were it not for that..." And remembering his former tenderness, and looking now at his kind, sorrowful face, she suddenly understood the cause of his coldness. [2]
Of the tenderness, nay, of the pity and cruelty of that parting, I have no power to write. [9]
She found it natural that the light should be temporarily removed from his firmament while she should be at boarding-school, and yet in the tenderness of her heart she pitied him. [9]
She herself was moved by Hannah's plight, but tenderness and pity were complicated by a renewed sense of rebellion against an existence that exacted such a situation. [9]
She would have mourned and broken her heart and mended it again; and I should have been only a memory--of mystery, of tenderness. [11]
And his ardour, mounting again, swept away the unwonted mood of tenderness and awe she had inspired in him, made him bold to suggest the plan which had been the subject of an ecstatic contemplation. [9]
He is a most interesting giant, with a softness of voice and tenderness of feeling which I find very engaging. [6]
Never was there more tenderness, it seemed to her, than in the whole look and expression of Elsie's father. [6]
It is the moment's careless whim; a pensive pleasure, a dramatic tenderness. [11]
Paula's eyes were moist with grateful tenderness, when Orion exclaimed: "You have heard from her own lips what makes the greatest bliss of my life. [10]
But when she met the quality of his look, the grave tenderness of it, she trembled, and our rendered her own to the page where his handwriting quivered and became a blur. [9]
It was a meeting full of heroism and tenderness, of which I heard more than there is need to tell. [6]
She gazed upon me with that kindness and tenderness I had always received since the days when, younger and more beautiful than now, she was the companion of my mother. [9]
She looked into Mandane's more than pretty face with real joy and tenderness, laid the bandage which had slipped aside gently over her ears, and breathed a soft kiss on her long silken lashes. [10]
The Something that made her raise her eyes to the stars, which seemed a pervading power, a brooding tenderness and solicitude, had drawn her mind away into the mind of humanity. [11]
Her warm heart made her feel more lovingly toward her sick brother than she had ever done when he was in health, and surely he was conscious of the tenderness with which she strove to comfort him. [10]
I am a lover of men, but this recent wonderful experience of their tenderness surprises and occupies my thoughts day by day. [6]
And yet she loved him--loved him with a fierceness that frightened her, with a tenderness that unnerved her.... At the Hampton station she took the trolley, alighting at the Common, following the narrow path made by pedestrians in the heavy snow to Fillmore Street. [9]
His rage, his love, and his malignant hate, his tenderness and his lust should fill the barber's shop with a flood which would drown the Gorgio raider. [11]
There was infinite love and tenderness, but there was also resolution, confidence, possession, mastery. [4]
Now, as she looked at him who was her pride, her honor, for one sight of whom she had prayed,--ay, and even blasphemed,--her eyes were all tenderness. [9]
There was a look of tenderness, for he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. [2]
She was a kind, sensible woman, and though she at first exclaimed over their heedlessness, she addressed them with maternal tenderness and showed them to the room they were to occupy. [10]
We gathered around it silently, and two great tears rolled down Polly Ann's cheeks as she parted the hair with tenderness and loosened the clenched hands. [9]
She, looked down into his face, with a pitiable tenderness, and said in a weak voice. [5]
She looked straight into his eyes, and his nearness, self-assurance, and the good-natured tenderness of his smile vanquished her. [2]
Antinous himself had indicated the right course when he had hastened to the Emperor with a gush of tenderness, in which the warmth was certainly not affected, to kiss his hand. [10]
What is there in this sound that suggests the tenderness of spring, the despair of a summer night, the desolateness of young love? [4]
The brisk walk in the rosy twilight had heightened her color, and given her a glowing expression which her face had not the night before, and a tenderness and softness, an unworldliness, brought from the quiet hour in the church. [4]
Grave tenderness was in his tone. [9]
As often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up his mind that they would be friends. [2]
For him her impatience had been patience, her fiery heart had spilled itself in tenderness for his misfortunes. [11]
She might not ignore the burden laid on Orion by that most just man; instead of taking him to her heart with double tenderness and softening or healing the fearful punishment inflicted by his father, she could only pity him. [10]
I must say, I was pleased with a certain tenderness they all showed toward us, after the first excitement of the news was over. [6]

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