In every tender bud of nerve, in each burgeoning sinew.

A tender bud is intrusted to a rejoicing family.

How can such a tender bud as I

They live like the tender bud or the opening blossom, exposed to the blight of a thousand fortuitous events.

All through his illness, I kept asking the Lord to let his parents keep the tender bud he had sent them.

As he did, he slipped his fingers up through the dense nest of curls, searching out the tender bud hidden there.

Disease fastens itself upon the loved one, and, like a tender bud nipped by the untimely frost, it withers, droops, and dies.

The almond-trees are in blossom; the fig-trees are beginning to sprout; everything is in the tender bud, the young leaf, or the half-open flower.

As the breath of spring quickens the tender bud, so let her youthful spirit infuse vigor into these minds yet younger than her own.

All was joy at first, but soon the tender bud drooped on its delicate stem: little hope was held out-itmust wither and die.

She seemed indifferent to the fate of this tender bud left at the mercy of one whom she affected to regard as a seasoned roué.

June came, and the bare branches sent forth their tender buds to greet it.

The tender buds were not to be crushed by the pelting hailstones of hard common sense.

Even the storms that swept down the dead leaves nurtured the tender buds that took their places.

That the tender buds were swelling

He is the spirit in the seed pushing up through the soil, the green leaves unfolding their tender buds for the first time.