Tenderer
['tendərə]
Examples
- Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He thought God could na be harder than men; mappen not so hard; mappen as tender as a mother; mappen tenderer. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Vell p'raps it's a more tenderer word,' said Mr. Weller, after a few moments' reflection. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Try a tenderer bit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Even Mr. Lennox's well-regulated professional voice took a softer, tenderer tone, as he drew near to the extinction of the last hope. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Edited by Cathryn