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- noun Plural form of
tenderling .
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Examples
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A hard guest is he, — but I honour him, and do not worship, like the tenderlings, the pot – bellied fire – idol.
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'Now we have chimneys our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses (colds);' for the smoke not only hardened the timbers, but was said by Harrison to be an excellent medicine for man.
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A hard guest is he, - but I honour him, and do not worship, like the tenderlings, the pot-bellied fire-idol.
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A hard guest is he, -- but I honour him, and do not worship, like the tenderlings, the pot-bellied fire-idol.
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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Now haue we manie chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complaine of rheumes, catarhs and poses.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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'Now,' says an author still more recent, 'have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs and poses,
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Various 1840
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_quacke_ appears to have been a novelty and therefore fashionable, affected by the tenderlings of that era, "as the proper thing to have."
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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In William Harrison's "Description of the Island of Britain," occurs the following curious passage: "Now we have many chimneys, and yet our tenderlings complain of reumes, catarres and poses; then had we none but reredores, and our heads did never ake.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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