But I knew her; she was too tenderhearted to order a friend about.

She's too tenderhearted for whatever's going to happen next, Ralph.

Helen had always been rather tenderhearted, particularly when it came to children, and she could not understand the action.

I tried to hurry them along, but they're very tenderhearted with their horses.

"So if there's any man too tenderhearted for that, he can leave now.

In every village there's always a tenderhearted widow, God bless her!

Then she turned once more toward the land and her expression became sad, for she was very tenderhearted.

And Nana grew tenderhearted, felt herself a child again.

What a tenderhearted delight is "Western," the best-kept secret in town.

Then, she'd deliberately left her in the care of the most tenderhearted couple in the circus.

"Chautauqua Summer" described a tenderhearted woman who grew to relish making trouble.

"So don't any of you think you'll get any tenderhearted philosophy from me."

The tenderhearted pirates burst into tears and the first act ends happily.

"If we are too tenderhearted, we shall come to grief," he said.

"Some tenderhearted guy," Meyer said, "didn't have the heart to tell her they were all through.

"You're more tenderhearted than Father was, or you put up with more nonsense, anyway.

Ms. Thomas's tenderhearted arguments will strike some as being tender-headed.

In this graceful and unabashedly tenderhearted novel, the politics behind the fighting is almost beside the point.

Marsha is the most tenderhearted of the bunch, and accordingly, she has compassion to spare.

"Mistress Gull is too tenderhearted to separate babies from their families.

But on the whole, her book is intended to evoke rather than argue - it's a tenderhearted nonfiction campus novel.

Zara's too tenderhearted for her own good.

He was a tenderhearted man who hid tenderness under a hard shell lest he be taken as weak.

Only the most tenderhearted weep at the plight of billionaire movie stars in need of privacy.

"He was too tenderhearted to be a rent collector," Smith notes, "and too candid to sell real estate."

She was tenderhearted from the start, and perhaps is not quite back to her full strength after recently giving birth.

However, she is tenderhearted and refuses to be married just for convenience.

I am tenderhearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare.

The last illustration confirms one's first impression that this book would distress or baffle the young and those who are tenderhearted.

"Or were you just being tenderhearted?"

He could be tenderhearted, as when he learned of his dear Josephine's wayward affections.

"Perhaps she is tenderhearted."

"My nephew is tenderhearted."

As John Coolidge told Life magazine in 1992: "Though father was tenderhearted, he rarely showed his feelings.

"Women, we know," his lordship continued, ignoring the interruption, "are wont to be tenderhearted where their--their former swains are concerned.

I was denied the privilege of serving at the evening's entertainment and confined to my room without supper, although Ellyn, who was tenderhearted, concealed a morsel of biscuit in her napkin for me.

"He was tenderhearted and compassionate of such as were in misery," Bradford write, "but especially of such as had been of good estate and rank and fallen unto want and poverty."