Word: tenderly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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TAKE one Latin School boy of a tender age, - one who has trodden on the edge of dangerous and unknown truths preferred, - two cupfuls of platitudes, four cupfuls of conceit; then add two pounds of feeling allusions to the effect that the great majority of your friends never use soap and water, and don't know enough to open their bedroom windows at night. Garnish the dish with "it seems to me," and sprinkle freely with the pronoun I. Serve with grandiloquence and bombast...
...after-glow shines out with tender light...
Resolved, that we, mindful of the strength and integrity of his character, deplore his decease, and tender our most hearty sympathy to his family and friends...
...want but thy accents tender...
...yielding maiden, clothed in tender charms...