The words were a positive entreaty, but they fell upon ground where passion had blocked access to any of the tenderer, impersonal feelings.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
Perhaps, in a tenderer significance than she meant, Calliope characterized us when she said:- "This town is more like a back door than a front-or, givin' it full credit, anyhow, it's no more'n a side door, with no vines."
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale
Having brought to an end his long and minute examination of the coachman, which had left both him and his victim in a state of semi-exhaustion, he determined to seek relaxation from the strain of his official duties by giving free play to the tenderer emotions of his heart.
"Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel"
E. Werner