How To Use Tenderly In A Sentence
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I stroked my violin tenderly; caressing the wood like a mother would an infant.
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She tenderly cares for her bedridden mother (euthanasia not being next on her agenda).
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He took in a deep breath, touching my body gently, tenderly… hesitantly.
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Then our antihero is seen tenderly removing the fish from the boat’s hull.
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Her somnolent black eyes and tenderly pursed pink lips intrude upon the eggshell delicacy of her face with the most delicate affection.
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Before this weary conflict came to a close, nearly every Boer family was gathered in from the perils and privations of the war-wasted veldt; and so, while nearly 30,000 burghers were detained as prisoners of war at various points across the sea, their wives and children, to the number of over 100,000, were tenderly cared for in English laagers all along the line of rails or close to conveniently situated towns.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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She reached for a silver hairbrush and tenderly began brushing her hair.
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I can't help feeling mighty sorry for him, if the foster birdling is really going to fly away from his nest after he has reared and loved her so tenderly, but, after all, it is only the history of the human race.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
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Timothy tenderly swept stray locks of hair from her face.
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On love, in all its many manifestations, few other poets have written so tenderly and so variously about the subject.
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The practice of infanticide, for selfish reasons, was, as we shall see in later chapters, horribly prevalent among many of the lower races, and even where the young were tenderly reared, the feeling toward them was hardly what we call affection -- a conscious, enduring devotion -- but a sort of animal instinct which is shared by tigers and other fierce and cruel animals, and which endures but a short time.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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Knowing that she was still in danger if she remained here, I lifted her tenderly and took flight, dogs baying at our heels as I loped along darkened paths.
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tenderly she placed her arms round him
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This tenderly passionate seducer set a completely new dimension to this male she'd never, it now seemed, completely known.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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gentled" and soothed the troubled spirit more and more tenderly, till Firefly could think of nothing like it but the father and daughter comforting each other on the Downs, that terrible day of his guilt.
Parables From Nature
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As Betty tenderly uncovers the wound beneath Rita's luxuriant hair, we know she's already in too deep for her own good.
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And though the risotto is a bit oily, the lamb shank in the middle is served as such a tenderly appealing stew, the grains were bound to get short shrift.
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The apparently aggressive Musa, tenderly tries to keep him conscious until the ambulance arrives.
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It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and, by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism, and exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
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Thou knowest with what joy I roamed over thy confines, and beheld the universal beauty that then was spread around; how tenderly I whispered through thy flowers, how joyfully I carried up their fragrant odours as a thank-offering to heaven; how merrily I sported on the hills, or taught the branches of thy lofty trees to bow, as in obeisance to Him who made them!
Parables From Nature
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Nilsen made sure the men he killed were insensible from drink before he strangled them, and wrote tenderly about them after the killing was over.
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It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism, and exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
The Conduct of Life (1860)
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Although they were all being tenderly cared for by wonderful nurses, with plenty of personal attention and attempts to comfort and stimulate them, they were absolutely wretched.
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Tenderly, Kirby untied the lace from around the rose and retied it around the top of her braid.
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Tenderly lifting her, he carried her back to the cave and placed her by her mother's side.
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The boys tenderly sodded its mound and placed a wreath of holly, plucked from the hills of Creuse, where he last trained.
The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces
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From that day hence for a half century the historic enjoinder of General Logan has been tenderly observed.
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Its substant ice curls freely, molds, and breaks itself like water, breaks in waves, plastic like honey, crested lightly with a frozen spray; it winds tenderly about the rocky shore, and the granite, distintegrated into crumbs, flows on with it.
Mrs. Knollys
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Normally when I take a cigar, my analysand cannot see me eagerly sniff its length and place my lips tenderly around its butt, for the analysand is reclining on a divan, and I am sitting behind the spot upon which his or her gaze would rest.
Early Thoughts on the Oedipus Complex
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She would tenderly caress both classic love songs and defiant heartbreakers with equal vocal skill.
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You kiss me gently on the lips, and I tenderly kiss back.
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He tenderly places the ash-grey cassette on his bedside cabinet and tugs out the inlay card.
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“Ah! my dear, I am afraid you and your monk are wasting your powder,” said Prince Andrew banteringly yet tenderly.
War and Peace
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These ideas are alluded to in this affable portrait by the angelic baby grasping a toy rattle while being tenderly held by its mother.
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But though I hated demonstrativeness, I still kept her by her hand; I looked tenderly into her eyes, and laughed softly and tenderly, and with my other hand stroked her dear face, her hollow cheeks.
A Raw Youth
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Could draw the passive arm about her neck when lying down to rest — it seemed to cling there, of its own will, protectingly and tenderly even in sleep — and breathe upon the parted lips, God bless her!
The Battle of Life
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Eugenia, when able, followed her and had no sooner heard the whole history, than, tenderly embracing her, she said, 'Let not this distress seem so desperate to you, my dearest sister! your own account points out to me how to relieve it, without either betraying our poor Lionel, or further weighing down our already heavily burthened friends.'
Camilla
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Then as we overtook them, the young man stooped down and tenderly undid her buckles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strife sprinted onwards in the pouring rain, tenderly cradling his six-year-old daughter who was whimpering with fear.
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They all climbed down and hurried back to their fires where meat was roasting tenderly.
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I had almost given you up, and was just going to cry," she said, laying her little snowflake of a hand upon the one which that morning had chafed the small, stiff fingers of Dora Deane, and which now tenderly pressed those of Ella Grey as the young man answered, "I have not felt like going out today, for my first call saddened me;" and then, with his arm around the fairy form of
Dora Deane
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Click these links to see how the clown anemonefish provides constant care, how the giant bullfrog tenderly and strategically saves his babies 'lives, how the gorilla serves as a bodyguard for youngsters, and how the weedy seadragon carries his eggs before they hatch.
Avital Binshtock: Worth Watching: "Life" on DVD
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And James was bending over him, wiping the blood tenderly from his face with the torn end of his sleeve.
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He embraced his daughter tenderly.
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He smiled tenderly at me, maintaining a pincer-like grip.
Kushiel's Avatar
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Englander finds comedy in their pretensions, their folly, their finickiness over styles and shades, but he also treats them tenderly.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She tidied her hair and looked at him tenderly.
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Look at him," cries Jasper, stretching out his hand admiringly and tenderly, though rallyingly too.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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He closed the pendant and tenderly tucked it into his pocket.
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Then we consult him upon matters of doctrine, and quiz him tenderly about his powers of dormition, and flatter him, or rather his age, with such phrases as, “The water from thy hand is of the Waters of
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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In fact I didn't breathe at all as I bore the shining little object slowly and tenderly through the opening and dropped it with a gentle rat-tat on the table.
Favourite Dog Stories
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But she spots that he has a shaving cut and tenderly wipes his face.
The Sun
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Tenderly he wiped its mouth and nostrils and eyes as it coughed into life, vomiting saline nutrient over his hands.
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She laid the child tenderly on the bed.
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Lys," I urged tenderly, "that was only some clumsy clown's trick.
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
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Sheree continued to hold him tenderly from behind as he continued to sob heart-wrenching tears.
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When you can manage to tint and gradate tenderly with the pencil point, get a good large alphabet, and try to _tint_ the letters into shape with the pencil point.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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‘Look at him,’ cries Jasper, stretching out his hand admiringly and tenderly, though rallyingly too.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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They revived him with their water; fed him with their food; and healed him with their herbs dug up tenderly from the wet dirt by the lake, and time as well.
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Her brother , who loved her tenderly, was appalled at this fantastic preference.
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Get as much room as possible; tenderly pass little miss there, and her unbreeched brother, over to their smiling mamma.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827
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The art of the anthologist is the art of the host: his tact is exerted in choosing a congenial group; making them feel comfortable and at ease; keeping the wine and tobacco in circulation; while his eye is tenderly alert down the bright vista of tablecloth, for any lapse in the general cheer.
Preface
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Cupid smiled to his ears, but it was the absentee's two mistresses who answered for her, volubly, tenderly: "We was going to bring her, but juz 'at the lazt she discide' she di'n 'want to come.
The Flower of the Chapdelaines
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Her somnolent black eyes and tenderly pursed pink lips intrude upon the eggshell delicacy of her face with the most delicate affection.
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On this spot I saw abundance of plover; and as I walked my horse along at a foot pace, I observed many of the newly hatched young, around which the old birds anxiously hovered, continually resorting to a well-known artifice; and in the hope of alluring an enemy to a false pursuit, limping tenderly away with a flagging wing, as if they were lame.
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There is something tenderly authentic about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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His fingers ghosted across my stomach and tenderly prodded at my side.
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But although he desires her passionately, he is also tenderly in love with her - and it is in the blend of hunger and profound romance that the essence of their relationship lies.
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_ Ay, forsooth, he's a child, you must conceive, and must be used tenderly; he was never in such an assembly before, forsooth, but once at the Warmoll Quest, forsooth, where he said grace as prettily as any of the sheriff's hinch-boys, forsooth.
In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)
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The result of the interview must have been very satisfactory, for when Jos had reascended his post-chaise and had driven away to his hotel, Emmy embraced her father tenderly, appealing to him with an air of triumph, and asking the old man whether she did not always say that her brother had a good heart?
Vanity Fair
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Sheraton describes the tenderly crusty roll as “characterized by an indented center well that is ringed by a softer, higher rim, all generously flecked with toasted onions and, at its most authentic, with a showering of poppy seeds.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Two men embrace tenderly before separating, 'tickets please' calls a voice from the past, and an electric sign reads 'the 20.55 is now boarding'.
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Velvety vocals, sung with tenderly picked guitars and gently played piano occasionally accompanied by some harsh brass made this record.
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Strange ripped a Kleenex from the box atop his desk and handed it to Simmons, who dabbed tenderly at his cheek.
Excerpt: Right As Rain by George Pelecanos
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These privileges were his and, however deferently and tenderly he claimed them, the joyous ease of his manner marked a difference and proclaimed a right.
The Reef; a novel
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He reached out and stroked her cheek tenderly.
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It is a great truth tenderly said that God builds the nest for the blind bird; and may it not be that He opens closed eyes and unstops deaf ears to sights and sounds from which others by these very senses are debarred?
The Roadmender
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So I watched spotty boys peel potatoes and old guys scoop haddock so tenderly from the deep fryer.
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Tenderly, she ran one finger down her baby's plump brown cheek.
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These words in our language sound harsh and almost rude, but the term rendered woman was so respectful that it might be addressed to the queenliest, and so gentle that it might be spoken to those most tenderly loved.
The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John
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She raised herself , leaned over him tenderly and kissed him . She was sad to wake him.
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After tenderly brushing some of the raggedy red hair out of the little painted face, the girl shoved the toy into the bag as well and pulled the drawstrings tight.
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There is something tenderly authentic about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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S. Benet was born of the province of Nursia, and was sent to Rome for to study, but in his infancy he left the schools and went into a desert, and his nourice, which tenderly loved him, went alway with him till they came to
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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She embraced her son tenderly when he came home after ten years' absence.
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They will lube it, massage it, and tenderly caress it until there is no resistance to the insertion from the Dems.
Think Progress » Vitter introduces frivolous amendment to deny federal funds to dissolving ACORN.
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Instead, I kissed her tenderly on the arm, just below the sleeve of her summer dress.
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I tried putting a little family of the babies into a cage in the plant case, hoping the mother who belonged to them would then appear and take care of them; but no, the entire colony trooped in and ran riot in the new place, and if a young gerbille was by chance left uncovered in the _melée_, a twentieth cousin would take it up tenderly as if it was its own mother, and replace it in the nest -- a very emblem of brotherly kindness and charity.
Wild Nature Won By Kindness
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Then Ginny tenderly put cream in Myra's bites, which at last were beginning to not itch constantly.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994
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Then as we overtook them, the young man stooped down and tenderly undid her buckles.
Times, Sunday Times
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She fares best with descriptions of her friends' reactions, which range from tenderly loyal to egomaniacally obtuse.
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She puts her arms gingerly and tenderly round an inscrutable black trunk.
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Former so-called noblemen tenderly remember the good old times when they could cheerfully kick a peasant in the pants.
Labor, Labor Movement and Music Speech by Hanns Eisler, 1938
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Blown tenderly from the frail heart of a reed, "and as the evening light comes down on silent places and the trembling shadows fall on the water, we can hear her mournful whisper through the swaying reeds, brown and silvery-golden, that grow by lonely lochan and lake and river.
A Book of Myths
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It went about like a mother who has found her child asleep at play, and who steals away atiptoe, finger on lip, lips smiling tenderly.
Emma McChesney and Co.
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I wash the lettuces and tomatoes tenderly, and stir dressing like sacral wine.
MOON PASSAGE
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But we'll sune get a new thairm till her, 'he added, in a tone of sorrowful commiseration and condolence, as he took the violin from the case, tenderly as if it had been a hurt child.
Robert Falconer
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I would find myself, dentures fractured or hopelessly misplaced, in horrible chambres garnies, where I would be entertained at tedious vivisecting parties that generally ended with Charlotte or Valeria weeping in my bleeding arms and being tenderly kissed by my brotherly lips in a dream disorder of auctioneered Viennese bric-a-brac, pity, impotence and the brown wigs of tragic old women who had just been gassed.
The Guardian World News
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I'll happily slather ketchup on a common or garden "patty" like an overexcited three-year-old, but a tenderly seared piece of skirt, or a hand-crafted burger deserves better.
How to make perfect salsa
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Features: It is bubble - less. It tenderly cleanses, smoothen skins and does not cause any tight feelings.
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Ah, my dawtie," she cried, so tenderly, "what does it matter wha he is when you canna help it!
The Little Minister
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Then as we overtook them, the young man stooped down and tenderly undid her buckles.
Times, Sunday Times
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I need my little musical rhythm to wrap me up and shush me tenderly as I wonder about the black-haired girl, and the basilisks in the hotel lobby.
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Long, graceful fingers were still entangled in his hair, massaging the base of his neck tenderly, and Ikeda's worries dissolved, his fears fading.
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The apparently aggressive Musa, tenderly tries to keep him conscious until the ambulance arrives.
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She reached down and tenderly pushed a few strands of dirty rusty red hair out of Tom's eyes.
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He ran his hand tenderly through her hair, enjoying the silken strands sliding effortlessly through his fingers…
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We stopped at a meadow to share our lemonade and my sister and I noticed how tenderly Manuel helped his wife to alight from the car.
Lucky thing
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God will deal tenderly and graciously in covenanting with them; and will be not only as good as his word, but better; and, as he will be just in keeping covenant with them, so he will be merciful in keeping them in the covenant.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The woman tenderly nibbled at her baby's ear
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See a lovely passage on the subject of bathing in Sir Philip Sydney's "Arcadia," where "Philoclea, blushing, and withal smiling, makeing shamefastnesse pleasant, and pleasure shamefast, tenderly moved her feet, unwonted to feel the naked ground, until the touch of the cold water made a pretty kind of shrugging come over her body; like the twinkling of the fairest among the fixed stars.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
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A partial of claimed which here a "fiendlike queen" of early scenes shows her dual nature, slow tenderly over a mental stop of a murdered mom of Macduff.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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The last words she addressed to her tenderly beloved husband were: "All is well:" and again, shortly before the final close: "My foundation is on the Rock;" that Rock, we undoubtingly believe, which "no tempest overthrows.
The Annual Monitor for 1851 or, Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, for the year 1850
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He ran his thumb tenderly over the bruise already forming on her face.
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He tenderly slipped a corsage onto my wrist, and I made my mother pin his boutonnière.
