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Veslovsky seemed to him still more alien and superfluous when they arrived at the porch – at which the whole animated group of grown-ups and children had gathered – and he saw Vasenka Veslovsky kissing Kitty's hand with a particularly tender and gallant air.
The little girl burst into sobs and buried her face in her mother's lap, and Dolly placed her thin tender hand on the child's head.
But not a cold look only but the angry look of a hunted and exasperated man flashed in his eyes as he spoke those tender words.
One was what he had said about the pike, and the other was that there was something not quite right about his tender pity for Anna.
The screaming had ceased, and he heard a sound of movement, of rustling, of accelerated breathing, and her voice, faltering, living, tender, and happy, as it said, 'It's over.'
We have always been friendly, and now...'Oblonsky said, answering her look with a tender gaze, while he considered with which of two Ministers she was the more closely connected – so as to judge which of them he should ask her to influence on his behalf.
His face now wore a tender expression, and she thought she detected in his voice the sound of tears, and their moisture on her hand.
If, without loving me, he is kind and tender to me from a sense of duty, but what I desire is lacking – that would be a thousand times worse than anger!
He remained silent, gazing at the wheels of the approaching tender, which was slowly and smoothly gliding over the rails.
At the sight of the tender and the rails, and under the influence of conversation with some one he had not met since the catastrophe, he suddenly remembered her; that is, remembered what was left of her when; like a madman, he ran into the railway shed where on a table, stretched out shamelessly before the eyes of strangers, lay the mangled body still warm with recent life.
The father and mother exchanged tender looks.
But she was used to the little one's rages; at eight she had all a woman's tender cunning in soothing and amusing her.
" And beneath the tender gaze of her parents she finally pushed them out of the room.
Did he want to hurt such a little darling, who was as soft as silk, so tender that he could have devoured her?
When Chaval and Catherine approached the Voreux they slackened their pace still more; they stopped twice beside the canal, three times along the pit-bank, very cheerful now and occupied with little tender games.
Barbara's Day, the fete of the miners when they do nothing for three days, the rabbit had not been so fat nor so tender.
She called all the miners her children; and grew tender at the thought of the flood of beer which she had poured out for them during the last thirty years; and she boasted also that a putter never became pregnant without having first stretched her legs at her establishment.
It was a suffering without possible cure, hidden beneath the stiffness of his attitude, the suffering of a tender nature in secret anguish at the lack of domestic happiness.
When they went away, although the night was very dark, they did not even kiss each other; they walked side by side, tender and despairing, certain that if they touched one another the captain would strike them from behind.
All the sous in his pockets had long gone to the urchins of the settlement; he had been as tender as a brother with the colliers, smiling at their suspicion, winning them over by his quiet workmanlike ways and his dislike of chattering.
It never came, so they went on kissing each other softly, with no idea of anything else, putting into that caress the passion they had long struggled against--the whole of their martyred and tender natures.
Beneath the tender azure of this beautiful day there lay a sewer, the ruins of a town drowned and melted in mud.
She smiled under the tender warmth, and drops of water could be heard falling one by one on the stretched silk.
He felt dreary as an empty house; and tender memories mingling with the sad thoughts in his brain, addled by the fumes of the feast, he felt inclined for a moment to take a turn towards the church.
I think verse more tender than prose, and that it moves far more easily to tears."
"Do make haste, Mere Rollet!""Well," the latter continued, making a curtsey, "if it weren't asking too much," and she curtsied once more, "if you would"—and her eyes begged—"a jar of brandy," she said at last, "and I'd rub your little one's feet with it; they're as tender as one's tongue."
She'd be tender, charming.
Rodolphe repeated in a low voice, and with a tender look, "Oh, yes! very beautiful!"
For it seems to me a little more tender, if I may venture to say so, and heavier.
And yet he looked at her strangely in a tender fashion.
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