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Tender in sentence

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They were tender or jovial, facetious, melancholy; there were some that asked for love, others that asked for money.
She remembered the games at cards at the druggist's, and the walk to the nurse's, the reading in the arbour, the tete-a-tete by the fireside—all that poor love, so calm and so protracted, so discreet, so tender, and that she had nevertheless forgotten.
Emma knew it from end to end; she knew that after a meadow there was a sign-post, next an elm, a barn, or the hut of a lime-kiln tender.
They told each other the sorrows of the week, the presentiments, the anxiety for the letters; but now everything was forgotten; they gazed into each other's faces with voluptuous laughs, and tender names.
She sobbed; called on Leon, sent him tender words and kisses lost in the wind.
She had tender words and kisses that thrilled his soul.
She went on in a tender, suppliant manner.
She supposed, without telling herself so, that between husband and wife there could be no more tender relations.
He despised these women, and all tender feelings.
These ideas sought to tarnish the tender and godlike image that she had made for herself of Julien and of the pleasure of loving him.
Sir!'Julien's gaze met that of a pair of the most tender blue eyes, and saw that it was himself who was being addressed.
Her refusal to use the _tu_ form, that abrupt method of breaking so tender a bond, and one upon which he still reckoned, roused Julien's amorous transport to a frenzy.
Unconsciously, Madame de Renal and Julien had departed from their solemn tone; they had returned to that of a tender intimacy.
Had they come a little earlier, this return to tender sentiments, the eclipse of remorse in Madame de Renal would have been a divine happiness; obtained thus by artifice, they were no more than mere pleasure.
The young prelate was doubtless alarmed by the tender gaze which Julien, in his timidity, fastened upon him, and made no effort to recognise this provincial.
There was nothing tender in his sentiments at this first moment.
But never were things so tender said in a colder and more formal tone.
If there was nothing tender in his heart, it was because, strange as it may appear, Mathilde, throughout the whole of her conduct with him, had been performing a duty.
'But,' he said to himself at other moments, 'one must admit that there is nothing artless, simple, tender, in her attitude; never have I seen her looking so haughty.
While Julien, steeped in the prejudices he had derived from books and from memories of Verrieres, was pursuing the chimera of a tender mistress who never gives a thought to her own existence the moment she has gratified the desires of her lover, Mathilde in her vanity was furious with him.
Mathilde had never had a lover, and at this epoch in life, which gives certain tender illusions to even the most sterile hearts, she was a prey to the bitterest reflections.
Julien was quite surprised to find this letter almost tender.
'I was an utter fool at Strasbourg, my thoughts never went beyond my coat collar.'Memories of Fouque kept recurring to his mind and left him in a more tender mood.
These were the only absolutely disagreeable moments in a heedless existence full of tender fantasies.
He was quite surprised when, having been detained for more than a quarter of an hour among the crowd, he was obliged to admit that his presence was inspiring a tender pity in the assembly.
When all the eyes that were looking for Julien became aware of his presence, on seeing him take his place on the slightly raised bench reserved for the prisoner, he was greeted with a murmur of astonishment and tender interest.
Do you suppose that Boniface de La Mole cut a better figure before his judges?'Mathilde, that morning, was tender without affectation, like any poor girl dwelling in an attic; but she could not win from him any simpler speech.
'She has come, faithful to her theory, to attack my resolve by force of tender sentiments.'Irritated by the prospect of this fresh scene in the pathetic manner, he did not open his eyes.
The _Memoires de Saint-Simon_ have spoiled Fenelon for me; but still, a true priest ...Then the tender hearts would have a meeting-place in this world ...We should not remain isolated ...This good priest would speak to us of God.
I have caught you at the same game, Father, play-acting like any missionary ...''Your tender age,' the Jansenist went or gravely, 'the interesting appearance with which Providence has blessed you, the motive itself of your crime, which remains inexplicable, the heroic measures of which Mademoiselle de La Mole is unsparing on your behalf, everything, in short, including the astonishing affection that your victim shows for you, all these have combined to make you the hero of the young women of Besancon.
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