1 His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support.
2 Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual.
3 Yet Hester was hardly safe in confiding herself to that gusty tenderness: it passed as suddenly as it came.
4 If she be all tenderness, she will die.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER 5 With sudden and desperate tenderness she threw her arms around him, and pressed his head against her bosom, little caring though his cheek rested on the scarlet letter.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER 6 In a mood of tenderness that was not usual with her, she drew down her mother's head, and kissed her brow and both her cheeks.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE 7 To Marianne it had all the distinguishing tenderness which a lover's heart could give, and to the rest of the family it was the affectionate attention of a son and a brother.
8 Her kindness is not sympathy; her good-nature is not tenderness.
9 She could therefore only LOOK her tenderness, and after slightly addressing him, said no more.
10 Her affection for me deserved better treatment, and I often, with great self-reproach, recall the tenderness which, for a very short time, had the power of creating any return.
11 Mrs. Dashwood would have interrupted her instantly with soothing tenderness, had not Elinor, who really wished to hear her sister's unbiased opinion, by an eager sign, engaged her silence.
12 I do not recall that I felt any tenderness of conscience in reference to Mrs. Joe, when the fear of being found out was lifted off me.
13 I have not bestowed my tenderness anywhere.
14 Whatever my fortunes might have been, I could scarcely have recalled my sister with much tenderness.
15 But I suppose there is a shock of regret which may exist without much tenderness.