Word: tenderer
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...Latin roots and tender shoots of Greek...
...only for one of those giddy girls again. It was in a stationer's shop where I first saw her. She was standing before a counter, and as I entered she glanced beseechingly toward me with her "violet velvet eyes, over which the silken fringes hung with such tender madonna grace." After a few such glances, that settled it. I could not help breaking my vow only to marry a girl with a million dollars and one lung. Soon she left the shop, and as I hurried past the counter where she had been standing I saw a card...
...always been faithful and tender...
...went very quietly, in order to avoid the pain of separation from his old friends, for, as he often remarked, he was a sensitive man. Even his creditors were grieved at his sudden departure. One of them, a very rough, profane man, whom you would never have suspected of tender sensibilities, is reported to have said that he would just like to get hold of old Sprucewell, Paradise receive him! Only he said something entirely different from Paradise: it was his bluff, honest way. But I wander a little from the purpose of this simple tale...
...voice comes through with tender accent: "Fanny, can I never induce you to treat me fairly? Is it possible that you are utterly impervious to others, that you can go on day after day making hearts ache, and still...