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There are many Europeans who cannot relish even good green turtle, however tender, delicate, and sweet it may be.
Just then she was heard singing some tender little song that seemed born of a sigh and a tear.
She succeeded too well both on sea and land ever to persuade us that defeat has made her heart more tender.
The flesh of a young ox should be a good red, and have a smooth and open grain, and feel tender.
Remember that lettuce will be much more tender and crisp if grown very quickly in beds rich in manure.
She was delighted with the office I tendered to her acceptance, and readily consented to every thing I required.
This friendship of a king's son with the son of a shepherd was very beautiful and tender and pure.
The critics, I have no doubt, will find abundant faults; and the rest I commit to their tender mercies.
She could not have a moment's ease till she knew how it was that her uncle, a tender father.
He wrote the most delicate and tender poetry, and he committed crimes so terrible that they cannot be named.
They further demanded that all debts should be payable in legal tender money at the option of the debtor.
Emotions of moral beauty are those that are felt in witnessing the exhibition of the gentler and tender emotions of mind.
She was the companion of his youth and there may have been between them a still more tender sentiment.
Then he halted, to prolong for one little instant this tender spell of magic which had stolen over him.
There is a good deal of the born reporter in Tom, and at a tender age, he discovered his literary inclinations.
She laughed happily, touching the leaves with tender, lingering fingers as you would the flushed cheek of a baby.
Boil them gently until tender (but they must not be allowed to break) in sufficient water to cover them.
She heard a tender voice murmuring, and in her glimmer of consciousness felt hot tears dropping on her face.
Her smile blossomed for him again, and it was something like her old, famous smile, but sweeter, more tender.
One is almost betrayed into respecting those criminals, they were so sincerely kind, and tender, and humane; and well-meaning.
We found it healthy and tender, but without the slightest trace of fat in any portion of the body.
I know how grieved they have been: though Dick is random and light-headed, he has a most tender heart.
Perhaps he was not very tender-hearted by nature; perhaps it was because he was absorbed in his own affairs.
Only a tender, amiable, pleasant, little talent, which would have led him into verses had his turn been literary.
A sudden wave of desperate love, of tender, reckless passion, swept through her, and she stretched out her arms.
He took her into his arms and soothed her, calling her by every tender name he could think of.
This method, if adopted, should be attended with great care and patience, or the tender parts will be injured.
Indeed, now and again official advertisements may be seen, inviting tenders for renting some of them, for twelve months.
Because you are a tender woman and charitable, though I have sinned against you, show me how to save my life.
And her eyes grew radiant and full of intense passion as they searched his face in the tender light.
With all this, however, she soon showed proofs of real kindness of heart and of tender consideration for others.
He was extremely tender-hearted and devoted to his family, around the members of which his affections were closely bound.
They were especially fond of the green, tender blades that came up where the country had been burned over.
Now just think of the folly, not to say the iniquity, of treating a tender infant as many do.
It does not appear, however, that their love was less pure, or their conduct towards each other less tender.
He had been cruelly stabbed by the hands of his friends in the most tender spot in his heart.
It was undeniable that the Countess was given to speaking, with no perceptible restraint, of her innumerable tender experiences.
When they are tender pile them on a platter keeping the heads all one way and prepare the dressing.
Angels folded their wings, and looked with tender awe upon these gracious beings who had come from the earth.
When nearly done add cream to almost cover and let them simmer about fifteen minutes or until quite tender.
He knew that her whole life had been pure and tender and patient, and her memory was an inspiration.
While awaiting the arrival of the trains from the city, invitations were freely tendered to our citizens by Hon.
He had a tender heart, but though he possessed some genius, he had not understanding enough to serve as an equilibrium.
Will your eyes flash, and will you show your teeth, or will you put on one of your tender, brooding looks?
Another tender, loving letter on October 28, and then they decide on the experiment of remaining together one night.
Stir over the fire until a dark brown; then stir it in with the chicken, and simmer until tender.
Now all is changed, and a character naturally tender and pitiful has become careless of others, and even cruel.
Tears of pity fell fast from the eyes of the tender-hearted Katharine as she listened to the touching narration.
In most markets, meat is made more tender by allowing it to hang for several days at a temperature near freezing.
An assassin of the deepest dye was given over by the judge to the tender mercies of the crowd.
Our council ended, therefore, with a determination to turn back, and trust to the tender mercies of the fever.
"Hope so myself," returned the other, "because it'd be too bad if I had to quit eating at my tender age."
What confidence then, what tender pity, what hope should fill our minds when we look on the heathen world!
Really she was the guardian of the whole party, and she was conscious of a tender and anxious responsibility.
It was natural, too, that, although they never quarrelled, their intercourse should not grow of a more tender character.
Few Catholics will read these lines without experiencing feelings of deep and tender devotion towards their Queen and Mother.
Short fibers are much easier to chew than long ones; consequently, the pieces containing them are the most tender.
In some few the motive was fear, for they had seen or heard of the tender mercies of the savages.
Smiling to himself, he concluded that he would try the effect of the tender term when he reached home again.
Boil it till sufficiently tender; pass it through a sieve, add the stock, and simmer it for half an hour.
When it is tender, drain and cut it into thin rings or lengths, and drop it into the boiling stock.
When he was sick or tired she watched over him with all the tender care of a sister or mother.
She looked at him with her great blue eyes so soft and tender, and sighed: "I am sorry for you."
In these meadows during the month of June the bears come to feed upon the young and tender salt grass.
"Then shall we just say no more about it; keep what has happened as a tender little secret between ourselves?"
As to the object of all this tender interest, he felt far happier than he had done for some time.
Some day when you know him better you will find his heart as tender as I have always found it.
Creed, one of the sorrowful number, "so tender and obliging a farewell, as none but he himself could have expressed."
He advanced still nearer, looking at her with a tender earnestness, as though his very soul were in the glance.
It touched a tender chord in my heart, when I came to the account of his being the prisoner's friend.
Yet in the middle of it he promised to bring a strange trophy to show his tender and God-fearing spouse.
She hoped he was not linking with it any thought of the little tender life so likely also to set.
Peel and cut the vegetables into slices and boil them in stock until tender, then rub through a hair sieve.
Still knowledge of it might, only too readily, prove a heavy burden to a young girl's imaginative and tender conscience.
I could see that the waves there would be quite enough for such a boat without the most tender handling.
The delight that filled their hearts was tender as the light in the valleys and the hill sides.
And so they knelt, and Abbie's simple, earnest, tender prayer Ester carried with her for many a day.
When the woman's reaching affections attain the sought heart, everybody cries out, "How sweet and tender and graceful!"
What can they mean, from the lips of a thinker so clear and so serious, and a friend so tender?
At a tender age they are sold by fathers and mothers into an existence which is worse than slavery itself.
Again we repeat that these lessons should be taught by the mother, and in a tender, delicate and confidential way.
It told the history of her industry, her sudden call from earthly things, and her mother's tender thought.
An infinite serenity was in her atmosphere, a promise of all pure and tender things in her great soft eyes.
When the bread is quite tender, rub all through a sieve, return soup to the saucepan, boil up, and serve.
Peel, wash, and cut up the potatoes and onion, boil in the water till tender, and rub through a sieve.
She, who carried as tender a maternal heart as ever beat, had to bear her own grief and his too.
No, she was most tender and affectionate, and all her passion was that of a mother's fondest love.
I sat telling them of my adventures and answering questions, flattered by their tender interest, until milking time.
This piece opens with a tender and expressive theme, which is one of the most beautiful of the composer's inspirations.
I was robbed of her exquisite dependence upon me, of those tender defects of nature that rendered her most dear.
A large white cabbage takes about an hour to boil tender, and a piece of soda should be added to the water.
I only took to it because I am too selfish to be a mechanic an' too tender-hearted to be a banker or a lawyer.
She felt very tender toward him after that, and her new gentleness made it all hard for him.
He has been tender of me, he has sheltered me, and he has strengthened me against himself to this hour.
There is always, I fear, some injustice mixed with love, at least with love so ardent and tender as mine.
He had no pity on her tender flesh; he could strike the soft neck he had once asked to kiss.
The Squire got up, shook the ashes out of his pipe, and laid it with tender care on the shelf.
Fanny clutched the girl's arm in a grasp so hard that it left a blue mark on the tender flesh.
The truest and finest, the sweetest prayer must come oft of the loving, the sympathetic, the tender soul.
She guessed how the telling must hurt the boy, for she stopped it with a little, tender laugh.