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Meanings of passionate tenderness in English

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Usage of passionate tenderness in English
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The almost passionate tenderness and humanity which lay beneath his gruffness was undimmed.
English Literature: Modern
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She took his hands with passionate tenderness, and pressed them to her lips.
Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical Novel
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Impulsively Miller stepped toward Kathleen, hands extended and eyes alight with passionate tenderness.
I Spy
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She opened her arms, and threw them with passionate tenderness around his neck.
The Merchant of Berlin: An Historical Novel
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Napoleon pressed his lips with passionate tenderness on his son's head.
Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical Novel
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Min's great black eyes beamed out on him with passionate tenderness.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
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The recollection of it even filled her with passionate tenderness.
A Little Traitor to the South / A War Time Comedy with a Tragic ...
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The passionate tenderness of them thrilled her through and through.
Greatheart
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Eliza sprang up and embraced her mother with passionate tenderness.
Andreas Hofer: An Historical Novel
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He felt only a passionate tenderness for Betty and a pity for them both.
Poor Man's Rock
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Hence the greater spirituality of romantic literature, its deeper emotion, its more passionate tenderness.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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As he finishes speaking, he presses his lips with passionate tenderness to her hand.
Molly Bawn
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The passionate tenderness with which his mother received him did not please the sixteen-year-old officer.
War and Peace
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His soul throbbed with passionate tenderness in every word.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
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After four months of marriage prolonged boredom had replaced the passionate tenderness of their honeymoon.
Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage
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From Rousseau, she received that passionate tenderness, that confidence in the inherent goodness of man.
Women of Modern France
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