Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring.
Women, like the plants in woods, derive their= 30 =softness andtenderness from the shade.
The prudence of the best of hearts is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
It is not advisable to reward where men have the tenderness not to punish.
The longer we live and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.
When death comes, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatsoever.
Nevertheless at one and the same time my whole being was stirred to its depths with a tenderness my manhood had not yet known.
Full of brief moments, that brought me then a poignant joy, it brings to my heart as I look back on it now a tenderness as of smiles and tears together.
I will still love you with all the tenderness of my soul till the last moment of my life.
Little by little the wound was healed as I recovered my former thoughts of her holy conversation towards Thee and her holy tenderness and observance towards us.
She fancied there was a difference in the manner of even Dave and Buff to him--a forced jocularity, a peculiar tenderness of voice.
The dish was always most skilfully cooked, the gravy exquisitely flavored, and the meat fibre possessed the tenderness of game, the Fraeulein said.
Are there any women down in the village, or among Mr. Norbury's tenants, who understand nursing, and have some tact and tenderness to recommend them into the bargain?
Go on, Lenny," she said, with such an accent of tenderness in the utterance of those three simple words that his speech failed him for the moment, and all his sensations seemed absorbed in the one luxury of listening.
It is followed by Obadiah's lovely tenor aria, "If with all your Hearts," full of tenderness and consolation.
He has written with tenderness and fidelity, with keen discrimination, and with graphic powers of description and analysis.
The text indicates the dramatic nature of the subject, and it is treated with a force and vigor that are in striking contrast with the tenderness and serenity, at times rising to exultation, that characterize the remainder of the work.
It is a work of scholarly skill, and yet is full of charm and grace, and will always commend itself even to the untutored hearer by its tenderness and pathetic beauty.
Tenderness and true love are things unknown to them.
He pressed her hand with more than usual tenderness as he spoke, and shortly afterward left the house.
In this transaction we see the gentleness and the tenderness of his love, and the terrible severity of his retributive justice, displayed together.
All our outward life goes on as before: histenderness for me is constant--overflowing.
Hens must have a depression where the bump of locality should be, for they have no manner of tenderness for old haunts.
Unlike human mothers, too, she has no especial tenderness for invalids.
She sees clearly that the spinster's unvarying solicitude in regard to the dress and appearance of "dear Adele" is due more to that hard pride of character which she nurses every day of her life than to any tenderness for the little stranger.
For at the hands of her old godmother and of her father Adele has known what real tenderness was.
She looked after him and was kind to him; she gave him all the tenderness which nature had intended her to bestow on the new generation that was to spring from her.
It was a love which irritated him, for it showed itself in unremitting watchfulness and nervous obtrusiveness; sometimes even in maternal tenderness and solicitude which knew no bounds.
Perhaps I should hide my daughter's sentiments; but I cannot help telling you that this esteem, this tenderness of which you speak, is felt by her.
He began by refusing, then he consented to this arrangement; and to thank him for it she stayed with him in his office, affectionate, full of tenderness and caresses, until he went to his room.
It promises stainless purity in the soul; and truth and justice and unfailing love; and tenderness to every creature that can feel; and a government of all that is under our dominion with a single eye to the service of God.
His tenderness has turned to jealousy and suspicion.
Tenderness and reproach alternate in the letters written from Baden in the summer of 1825.
In a mind and heart prone to equity and tenderness it developed a strange capacity for cruel injustice.
A mild and peaceable tenderness of which he had never thought himself capable welled up from his and heart.
But when in his joy at what he considered the full possession of a jewel his tenderness went beyond hers, her conscience smote her.
Her sentiments towards him seem to resolve themselves into a great tenderness rather than a passionate fervor--a placid affection for himself, and an adoration for his music.
The child's heart declared unreservedly for her mother, whose passionate fondness she returned with the added tenderness of a deeper nature, and all attempts to estrange the two had only drawn them closer together.
Of a sudden, he realized as never before a profound tenderness for this country of beetling crags and crystal rivers, of serene spaces and balsamic airs.
A warmth of exquisite tendernessvibrated through him, as his hope leaped to that homecoming, to the time when once again the girl should rest clinging on his bosom.
A flame of tenderness burned in the clear hazel of his eyes, as he stared out over the trail before him.
A great tenderness shone from the black eyes, in which age had not dimmed the brilliance.
All over England the tenderness of the little children for the less is delightful.
She was glad if she had been able, in the least degree, to return to Aunt Barbara any of the love and tenderness that the latter had lavished upon her for more than fourteen years.
I think he had been in failing health for some time, and perhaps on that account had been the more loath to part with us; but he had shown us so little tenderness that we had never realized that he wished for our sympathy or affection.
This letter, nevertheless, was full of tenderness for La Riviere, which Mazarin knew was the only way to ruin him with Pope Innocent, who hated Mazarin and all his adherents.
But the tenderness she had for her beloved Cardinal made her unwilling to consent that I should continue to exclaim against his Eminence in Parliament, where one was obliged to handle him very roughly almost every quarter of an hour.
On Christmas Day I preached such a sermon on Christian charity, without mentioning the present affairs, that the women even wept for the unjust persecution of an archbishop who had so great a tenderness for his very enemies.
She suffered also from a tenderness in the retina, which forced her to shun the light.
On this Anne's eyes were fixed with an upliftedtenderness until she broke her silence.
He was ever grateful, and moved by any tenderness of mine.
This beauteous woman dwelling in her husband's heart, giving him all joy of life and love, ruling queenly and gracious in his house, bearing him noble children, and tending them with the very genius of tenderness and wisdom.
Before he went away he bent low and long over Clorinda's hand, pressing his lips to it with a tendernesswhich strove not to conceal itself.
It was my lady, who came to him with blushing cheeks and radiant shining eyes, and was swept into his arms in such a passion of love and blessed tenderness as Heaven might have smiled to see.
And then the frightened guests beheld a strange but beautiful and loving thing, such as might have moved any heart to tenderness and wonder.
The mellow voice that had charmed the countryside in bygone years, it fell and quivered with infinite tenderness and love, and it sped to the heart of the gaunt old doctor.
The dark eyes, so ardent in the pursuit of knowledge, or of any other of her heart's desires, could yet sparkle with childish glee, or soften with the tenderness of the ideal Madonna.
