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77 examples of Tenderly in a sentence

He saw those who had been delicately nurtured, and tenderly brought up, cheerful under privations, and superior to suffering, that would have crushed many of a rougher grain, because they bore within their own bosoms the materials of happiness, contentment, and peace.
Edward is very amiable, and I love him tenderly.
And soon afterwards, on the second boy's violently pinching one of the same lady's fingers, she fondly observed, "How playful William is!""And here is my sweet little Annamaria," she added, tenderly caressing a little girl of three years old, who had not made a noise for the last two minutes; "And she is always so gentle and quiet--Never was there such a quiet little thing!"
It raises my influence much too high; the power of dividing two people so tenderly attached is too much for an indifferent person."
can talk of it now, I hope, as I ought to do."--Elinor tenderly invited her to be open.
Tarvin put his hand tenderly on the child's shoulder, but his eyes were following the dust-cloud.
She took one little one to her breast, and hushed it tenderly; it was burnt and dry with fever.
Then Tarvin pulled him up, and addressed him tenderly.
"But you know that no one will come," Kate said tenderly.
Tarvin bent over him tenderly.
She held his hand as she spoke, and pressed it tenderly.
"The Prince's trouble was much worse than that, I am afraid, Maharajah Sahib," said Kate."Ah, little one," said the King, bending over his son very tenderly, and speaking in the vernacular, "this is the fault of eating too much."
Come then, the white fairy cannot carry thee so tenderly as I can."
Upon which M. d’Artagnan the elder girded his own sword round his son, kissed him tenderly on both cheeks, and gave him his benediction.
Then turning toward that one of the guards who had declared himself the friend of Bois-Tracy, "Besides," continued he, "I have reflected, my dear intimate of Bois-Tracy, that I am not less tenderly his friend than you can possibly be; so that decidedly this handkerchief is as likely to have fallen from your pocket as mine."
The heart of d’Artagnan swam in delirium; he marched between Athos and Porthos, pressing them tenderly.
I went up to him as he was singing a love ditty and looking tenderly at a lady, and interrupted him exactly in the middle of the second couplet.
D’Artagnan threw himself on his neck and embraced him tenderly.
"You are a woman of precaution, I see, my dear Madame Coquenard," said Porthos, squeezing the hand of the procurator’s wife tenderly.
Accept that which the bearer brings you; make the campaign like a handsome true gentleman, and think of me, who kisses tenderly your black eyes.
And then accompanying the glance with explanatory words, "That is but too just," said she, tenderly.
Milady held out her hand to him, which he kissed tenderly.
Athos rose, walked toward his friend with a slow and solemn step, embraced him tenderly, and as he burst into violent sobs, he said to him with his noble and persuasive voice, "Friend, be a man!
I looked tenderly upon her, and she smiled through her tears.
Miss Bingley's civility to Elizabeth increased at last very rapidly, as well as her affection for Jane; and when they parted, after assuring the latter of the pleasure it would always give her to see her either at Longbourn or Netherfield, and embracing her most tenderly, she even shook hands with the former.
She saw all the glories of the camp--its tents stretched forth in beauteous uniformity of lines, crowded with the young and the gay, and dazzling with scarlet; and, to complete the view, she saw herself seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with at least six officers at once.
Two children were born to them, whom they tenderly loved.
She opened the door herself, a middle-aged, graceful woman, and it gave me joy to see how tenderly her arm stole round the other's waist and how motherly was the voice in which she greeted her.
I am myself a woman, tenderly nurtured, naturally fearful of danger, and impatient of pain--yet, when we enter those fatal lists, thou to fight and I to suffer, I feel the strong assurance within me, that my courage shall mount higher than thine.
'I beg you, I entreat you,' said she suddenly in quite an altered tone, sincerely and tenderly, taking him by the hand, 'never to speak to me about that!''But, Anna...''Never.
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