She was that tender-hearted, you wouldn't believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference

He was tender-hearted to his curates, for he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference

The landlord was an honest, tender-hearted German.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

He was eager and ardent, and absurdly tender-hearted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

But that was like Nell -- tender-hearted Nell of Shorne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

"Maybe he didn't eat the rabbits," urged tender-hearted Mamie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference

Forgetting formality, tender-hearted Marjorie sprang after him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference

"Look out, mister," said the tender-hearted Ozzie B. to the Italian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

But, oh, the little girl was brave and tender-hearted and honourable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

Paul is tender-hearted, but he's clearly in the camp of individualism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Spencer's Small-Town Maelstrom] Reference

You'll like her, Nell; she's such a dear, tender-hearted little woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

King Robert the Bruce was "brave as a lion, tender-hearted as a woman.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Conduct] Reference

I address this advice to you two as being the most tender-hearted of the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

'Ah, Nika, thou wert always merry; would thou wert as tender-hearted as humorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

Massachusetts and South Carolina may draw tears from the eyes of our tender-hearted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

His character seems to have been warm and sanguine, tender-hearted, and easily depressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

She was tender-hearted and sympathetic; just the touch of her pretty hand would help him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference

And he who was too tender-hearted to shoot wild game could not make light of that situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

And so the grief of the old was a part of the joy of the young, tender-hearted as they were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

Nell was touched by the appeal, for she was tender-hearted; but it did not change her purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Hill House] Reference

There is a fine touch in a report from that tender-hearted officer, the late Inspector Horrigan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference

The homely, tender-hearted "Father Abraham" -- rare combination of courage, justice, and humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

Especially, why didn't two such affectionate, tender-hearted persons as Colonel Lunt and his wife?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference

Terrified though he is the tender-hearted youth forgives him and entreats his mother to do the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

That is to say, the tender-hearted son discounts his father's death to provide fuel to feed his flame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference

The tender-hearted Strachan was not the sort of man to behold the sorrows of his client without emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

It awoke all the spontaneous desire for his happiness in every tender-hearted person who knew and liked him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

I am a little tender-hearted over it yet, and believe that it was, after all, not so bad as it might have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

She were like a brimstone match, or like gunpowder itself, at home, and tender-hearted as a young baby besides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse] Reference

He had supported the first two, but being naturally tender-hearted and easily influenced, the third might be fatal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

To the tender-hearted lad there was something pathetic and touching in the way the poor creature had met its death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference

What chance had tender-hearted Phil, with her dread of having anything in the world suffer, against the appeal of the forsaken creature?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference

We were obliged to take the poor tender-hearted girl away from the spot, and she shook and shivered with remorse all the rest of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference