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  • There was time to say a "tenderish" thing to her before she lay -- before that.

    Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • BLOOM: _ (With a sour tenderish smile) _ A little frivol, shall we, if you are so inclined?

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • To begin with, it is fascinating to see that a lot of supposedly tenderish plants survived the weeks of sub-zero temperatures, tucked up under a blanket of snow.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • "Why are some people made like me?" she thought -- "so it kills 'em to say anything anyways tenderish.

    Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • "When they're dead, we're willing enough to say tenderish things to

    Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell

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