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  • Mr. Peggotty, looking at the fire, ‘kiender worn; soft, sorrowful, blue eyes; a delicate face; a pritty head, leaning a little down; a quiet voice and way — timid a’most.

    David Copperfield 2007

  • It was hours afore she knowed me right; and when she did, she kneeled down at my feet, and kiender said to me, as if it was her prayers, how it all come to be.

    David Copperfield 2007

  • Maybe you can guess that if you'd had such a friend, you'd have got into a way of being fond of him in course of time, and that my niece was kiender daughter-like to me. '

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • Theer's been kiender a blessing fell upon us, 'said Mr. Peggotty, reverentially inclining his head,' and we've done nowt but prosper.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • It was hours afore she knowed me right; and when she did, she kneeled down at my feet, and kiender said to me, as if it was her prayers, how it all come to be.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • A slight figure, 'said Mr. Peggotty, looking at the fire,' kiender worn; soft, sorrowful, blue eyes; a delicate face; a pritty head, leaning a little down; a quiet voice and way - timid a'most.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • Mas'r Davy, 'he added; answering, as I think, my look;' you han't no call to be afeerd of me: but I'm kiender muddled; I don't fare to feel no matters, '- which was as much as to say that he was not himself, and quite confounded.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • He said, almost in the same words as formerly, that Ham was just the same, 'wearing away his life with kiender no care nohow for 't; but never murmuring, and liked by all'.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • But, fear of not being forgiv, fear of being pinted at, fear of some of us being dead along of her, fear of many things, turned her from it, kiender by force, upon the road:

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • I just done gone miss 'a spam whale, and I was kiender mad, -- muss ha' bin.

    The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

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