Many of those sent to prison were indeed of tender years.
Constantly associated with these convicted felons were numbers of juveniles, infants of tender years.
Through covetousness I caused Abhimanyu of tender years, that hero who resembled a lion born in the hills, to penetrate into the array that was protected by Drona himself.
Some (amongst his kinsmen), exceedingly agitated by grief and indulging in loud lamentations, took up the boy of tender years, that sole wealth of his family.
Surely, ye have no affection for that sweet-speeched child of tender years, whose words, as soon as they left his lips, used to gladden you greatly.
But men are always partial to those who are in misfortune or of tender years.
This my brother is of tender years, so there is little doubt that he will perish if thou diest now.
I am asking the Senator from Indiana, which he seems to be very unwilling to answer, whether a child of tender years has or has not, in his opinion, the same natural rights that a grown-up person has.
Their effort is to lay hold of the children of the new-comers at once; tender years are no barrier.
To-day the flower-girl of tender years is scarcely ever met with in New York.
It is the tenement that gives up the child to the street in tender years to find there the home it denied him.
Examined like cattle by the purchaser, the sullen Shankala fetches a price proportioned to the muscular appearance of his giant frame; and the child of tender years is valued according to the promise of future development.
Although the majority of the slaves imported with the caravan from Abyssinia were of tender years, and many of them extremely pretty, they did not excite that interest which might have been anticipated.
This daughter of his host was of tender years; apparently she could scarcely have counted sixteen summers.
The lesser boys, urchins of tender years, clustered like flies round the baskets of certain vendors of sugary delicacies that rested on the Long Walk wall.
The worst feature of La Force was that children of tender years, often no more than seven years of age, were committed to it for the most trifling misdeeds.
How could good come to a child of tender years, unskilled in battle, in such a situation of great danger.
How could those mighty bowmen of cruel hearts shoot their deep-piercing shafts upon that child of tender years, who, again, Was my son and the nephew of Vasudeva?
She is still of tender years, and as yet infirm from her days of recovery.
For one of so tender years, there were always other ways.
The universal experience is, that neither the benevolence of the manufacturer nor the conscience of the parent will prevent the steady employment of children of tender years in factory work, provided sufficient wages be offered.
It is true that sometimes the habit of vagrancy and idling may be too deeply worked in him for his character to speedily reform; but, if of tender years, a change of circumstances will nearly always bring a change of character.
The experience gained in these schools still further developed the fact, already known to us, of the great numbers of children of tender years in New York employed in factories, shops, trades, and other regular occupations.
He says you're young, and of tender years, Not fit to come into his degree; But he will send you three tennis balls, 35 That with them you may learn to play.
Your master's young, and of tender years, Not fit to come into my degree; But I will send him three tennis balls, That with them learn to play may he.
I still had ruth on widows tears, I succour'd babes of tender years; 70 And never look'd for other gain But love and thanks, for all my pain.
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