Sentence Examples:
Pick and wash the cauliflowers very clean, stew them in brown gravy till they are tender, and season with pepper and salt.
Then cut the palates into slices, or leave them whole, and stew them in a rich gravy till they become as tender as possible.
Courage and renown took entire possession of those hearts which but too lately had sympathized with the weaker and more tender sentiments of humanity.
She said, kissing the tender cheeks, and gazing with wistful earnestness into the eyes that so frankly and bravely met her own.
It was in my heart to utter more tender and sentimental words than I had any right to use, but I repressed the inclination.
She even suffered her head to droop a little, and then I perceived that she cast an anxious and tender glance at her father.
Instantly she recalled his hostile reception of her entrance into the compartment, and the defiantly given explanation she had tendered in return.
Wide, eloquent blue eyes that gazed back up into his, tender and unafraid; eyes freighted with the oldest message of woman to chosen man.
Stuff with bread crumbs, a minced onion, season with pepper and salt, a little sage and a good supply of butter, roast until tender.
Then the moving spectacle of this young and tender child, your only friend and guide, would wring pity from the very stones.
A false weight and a false balance are an abomination, and in that light this tender act must be viewed by every impartial person.
Then as birch and beech and oak and chestnut put forth a garb of tender pallid green, March advanced and Easter came on apace.
Boil until tender, then press them through a colander; add a teaspoonful of butter, a dash of nutmeg or cinnamon, and sweeten to taste.
A yearning so keen, so deep and tender, as to cross the narrow border between pleasure and pain, rushed into the young man's heart.
The bushes were already clothed in tender green, and here and there through the young leaves could be seen a spray of white hawthorn.
An undeniable evidence of the finest, most tender sensitiveness for beauty, resulting in a complete and perfect rendering of the subtlest forms of growth.
If he were a bachelor, a tender garter was offered him by a lonely maiden of the village, and was acknowledged beneath the moon.
All these tender and loving hearts were wrung with sorrow and distress; but Raymond's pain was far greater than any of these.
That "if he only lives" I considered to be very diplomatic; it was enlisting a tender sympathy for his perilous condition to start with.
He could scarcely behave so outrageously as to leave home in this secret fashion and tender no explanation of his whereabouts, or his purpose in leaving.
When it shows itself quieter and more thoughtful, it may be expressly taught, a little at a time, with cheerful steadiness and tender encouragement.
As far as tender is concerned, there is no difference between the practice of the French monetary system in 1726 and that of 1803.
She is tender at times, but only through caprice; she is never faithful except for profit or lack of occasion to be anything else.
Ralph bundled him up into the cab, clambered back into the tender, and made a comfortable seat for Van on top of the coal.
The slave has feelings as quick and tender as their own, a life and a destiny as tenaciously clung to as their God-appointed destiny.
A flower is commonly thought the emblem of a woman; and a woman is generally thought of as something sweet, clinging, tender, and perishable.
Or what induces us to laugh on reading that the corpulent Gibbon was unable to rise from his knees after making a tender declaration?
Unhappily that advice was tendered to him by a man who could not offer him security for the realization of so wise a policy.
Not only by a tender Mary Magdalene, an impulsive Peter, a rapt John, a Thomas through all his unbelief nervously anxious to be convinced.
When the Trinity tender paid her monthly visit to the lighthouse she was moored to a buoy three cables' lengths away to the northwest.
These reasons, Lady Pelham alleged to herself, as sufficient grounds for a resolution never to affront her niece by a tender of pecuniary favors.
The tender altruistic trait of the neurosis therefore merely compensates for the opposite attitude of brutal egotism which is at the basis of it.
Inwardly deploring my forgetfulness, I drew my flask from my pocket and tendered him a pull, which he accepted with feverish energy.
Paine says, "legal tender," profanity was almost the normal language, and murder was committed at all hours of the day and night.
Youth was as buoyant with hope and gladness, love as warm and tender, mirth as natural to innocence, wit as sprightly, then as now.
The proposed plan appears to be shortly this, that the commissioner shall liquidate every certificate which may be tendered to him in specie value.
They stood among the garden scents, amid the flowers, which told of parting summer, and conversed with voices softened by tender solicitude.
I have chilled her tender nature by my carelessness or coldness, for I have never loved her as I did my lost little Golden.
The incurable optimism of the smile accompanying these words moved Susan, abnormally bruised and tender of heart that morning, almost to tears.
He was most generous and tender-hearted, except to those who had wantonly taken advantage of the confidence he reposed in them to deceive him.
A tender line closed the missive, and a laughing postscript besought him not to believe the half he saw in the papers about her.
The inhabitants of the land are all rebels, and yet the last time we were over there our generals were mighty tender toward them.
Skin covered with small, scattering, dark dots, inclined to crack, thin, tender, adheres slightly to the pulp, contains no pigment, slightly astringent.
Flesh pale green, translucent, moderately juicy, tender, fine-grained, lacking somewhat in aroma, sweet at skin to agreeably tart at center, mild, of fair quality.
The trees are a little tender to cold, are not quite productive enough to make the variety profitable and are, too, somewhat fastidious as to soils.
The flesh is very tender, sweet and delicate, and is of great note among the inhabitants of Peru and Chili, as a fancy dish.
Imagine what I felt when I heard, after a long interview, the tender adieus, sweet kisses, and promises to meet again the next night!
"Of course I am fond of him," rejoined the other girl simply, whilst a look of the most tender-hearted devotion seemed to beautify her pale face.
The whole of it is reserved for the fortunate foal, object of the love and most tender solicitude of all inhabitants of the tent.
On her face there was a faint tender smile, but his was full of passionate entreaty, the force of which made his eyes tremulous.
The affair was a success, and Patrick was left an orphan at the tender age of one and one-half years to wrestle for himself.
Removing his hands from his pockets he came forward, and giving an elaborate sweep with his hat he tendered a dirty piece of pasteboard.
Davis received me with every show of hospitality, afterward plying me with tender inquiries about the Singletons and their life in the new home.
All alike were tender and solicitous to lessen, if they might, the melancholy of my father, or lighten the burden of my sorrowing mother.
Or what induces us to laugh on reading that the corpulent Gibbon was unable to rise from his knees after making a tender declaration?
My services in this way are freely at their command, and I beg leave to tender to yourself my salutations and assurances of respect.
Such care as he takes of his aged mother is prompted not by tender feeling for her but by the consciousness of filial obligation.
To the engineer and fireman, native born, it was a novelty indeed, and they cast many curious glances at the group upon the tender.
An hour later, a composed and cheerful Kitty was greeting Nelly Chanter, who came in rosy and breathless as usual, full of tender incoherence.
A fair, unimpeachable opportunity of tendering fresh services to him on whom the accomplishment of my ambition seemed to depend, was now afforded me.
Adult males are not so sensitive as females; young children, whether male or female, are sensitive, tender and excitable, and alive to every irritation.
She held a telegraphic sheet in her hand, and there was in her face a gravity infinitely tender, and quite quiet, and quite normal.
She had blue eyes; not the meaningless blue of a French doll, but deep and lustrous, like the tender hue of the summer sky.
In a word, the life of the child is founded upon the great and immutable, and yet simple, tender and delicate laws of nature.
You could not see and know her, and remain unmoved by those sensations of affection which belong to so near and tender a relationship.
Sometimes one will see a donkey nibbling at the tender tops of new grain or animals walking through it without rebuke from the owners.
His heart is wrung with anguish as he sees the peril of his spiritual children, and he breaks out into tender and impassioned entreaty.
How they sweep off the tender herbage, into what artistic groups they naturally fall, what pictures of peace and plenty they present!
The sight of the starving beasts, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five of them, tearing away greedily at the tender alfalfa, roused in Harry an indescribable ire.
Even in peace times it is a hard overalls job, but our nine European bases with eleven repair ships and tenders, kept our ships in condition.
Everything Greville's haggard glance fell on seemed to have a history of its own, a tender association, connected with her who had passed away.
I wrote some little nonsense on the card, about tender melodies and spring-time, and then I went back to the hotel to attend Madame.
Your mother, anxious and always trembling for your welfare, guards it with tender solicitude from all the dangers to which it might be exposed.
She exclaimed, taking his head in both hands and gazing down at him with eyes more deeply tender than he had ever seen them.
They have been taught to address supplications to her, and, being a woman, her heart is considered more tender than a man's could be.
If I omit a tender name, by which I used to call you, must I be thought to lose that passion that taught me such endearments?
This stern parent liked to think of himself as generous, compassionate, and tender-hearted; and he had been grievously cheated out of this agreeable sensation.
Their desires were not less intense, but more spiritual; their consciences were very tender, and their feelings contrite, but subdued and gentle.
The patient submitted, and the Rector, with a tender and skillful touch, made him comfortable on his pillows and smoothed the bedclothes.
Now as she bent painstakingly over her work, she smiled to herself and wove a tender thread of loyalty and love into the pattern.
He was affected and touched by the tender tone and the pure sparkling glance; their innocence smote him somehow and moved him.
"It ain't so very filling," Skinny remarked the first time he tasted the delicate dish, "but it's tender and has a dandy flavor!"
When he turned, he saw that his mother was weeping; and he stooped to kiss her forehead, with tender apologies for his abruptness.
What grateful memories of tender childhood, what healthy durable associations, what sound habits of life can grow among these unwholesome and insecure shelters?
And so he dwells in goodwill toward all, and regards all with that tender compassion which a father bestows upon his wayward children.
I think you spoke of tender venison, and juicy bear steaks, and perhaps of a delicate broiled trout from one of these clear mountain streams.
If lemon flavor is liked, a few pieces of the yellow rind may be added to the apples a little while before they are tender.
Last of all, the Crab requested to be taken; and the Crane, coveting his tender flesh, took him up with great apparent respect.
I saw him stare at her, his eyes filled with wonderment and gratitude, for men of these places know little of tender care.
Gaily flitting above the glassy surface of the water, in all the fancied security of tender youth and innocence, came my yellow fly.
In the morning drain the beans, cover with boiling water, add one tablespoonful of molasses and cook until tender, but not too soft.
Hard fruits like apples and quinces should be cut up, covered with cold water and cooked until tender before turning into jelly bags.
What can the unusually tender friendship be called which he professed for me, and, as I may say, claimed in return from me?
On the tree's topmost bough was a sparrow's nest, and in it eight tender nestlings, over which the mother bird spread her wings.
The wife, whatever her tender solicitude for her absent partner, feels her solitude and is drawn nearer to friends, perhaps her husband's friends.
Through slush and mud, under dripping trees, across country landscapes veiled in the tender mist of clouds, we finally arrived at the Abbey.
Their stories are fruitful of varying lessons, for some of these historic girls were willful as well as courageous, and mischievous as well as tender-hearted.
She raised her hands, and pressed them to her lips, then threw them outwards, with a gesture eloquent of innocent and tender passion.
The honeysuckle grows almost as fast as the birds, and the tender, overhanging branches make a roof which keeps off all the rain.
In the Baker homestead at Bow I was born, the youngest of my parents' six children and the object of their tender solicitude.