Meaning of tender-hearted | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C2]

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Examples

“Besides this, most of us must have⟳ remarked that a certain harshness of manner is contracted by those who have⟳ the rule⟳ over the poor. They come⟳ in contact⟳ with human souls only in the way of business. They have⟳ to do with their ignorance, their stupidity, their attempts to deceive⟳; and hence the tenderest-hearted men become⟳ impatient and apparently unfeeling.”

“But they never could induce her to shoot⟳ at anything except a mark⟳. She was the tenderest-hearted little thing in the world.”

“[…] Brother Bob, as I was telling you, ran away to sea; and, so they say⟳, became Emperor of the Indies; where the very stones are emeralds and the sheep-crop rubies. Which, for a tenderer-hearted man never lived, he would have⟳ brought back with him, Sir, to mend⟳ the family fortunes, Sir.”

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