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Ginny applied it to her skin tenderly, asking "Do you stay in touch with all those kids?"

MORE FROM GINNY BATES: SO LOVELY, WOMEN TOGETHER Maggie Jochild 2007

Then Freleng kissed Hannah again tenderly with all the love he could imply in that simple gesture.

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He said the name tenderly, with an inflection he had never used before.

Marcia Schuyler Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

There I saw the garden, and Marie walking up and down, but still I did not recognise her; she came forward, smiling, and held out her arms to me calling tenderly: “Therese, dear little Therese!”

The Story of a Soul Lisieux, St Therese of 1912

He breathed the word tenderly, reverently and she felt the blessing and the wonder of the love of this great simple-hearted man.

The Man of the Desert Grace Livingston Hill 1906

To say that every object far or near was visible as distinctly as by day, yet more tenderly, is to say nothing.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

But, as he smiled at her, with the tears in his eyes, speaking her name tenderly, her frightened look relaxed, and she remained staring at him with the shrinking furtive expression of a quite young child.

The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

Her words began harshly, but ended with his name tenderly, pitifully uttered.

The Leatherwood God William Dean Howells 1878

Perhaps Mrs. Rossitur thought so, for, again tenderly kissing her before she left the room, she told Hugh to take off her things and make her feel at home.

Queechy 1854

There I saw the garden, and Marie walking up and down, but still I did not recognise her; she came forward, smiling, and held out her arms to me calling tenderly: "Therese, dear little

Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux 1873-1897 1912