"Untender" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unacquainted with old books, what is the difficulty of revision, and what indulgence is due to those that endeavour to restore corrupted passages.—That these hot tears, that breake from me perforce, should make the worst blasts and fogs upon the untender woundings of a father's curse, peruse every sense about the old fond eyes, beweep ...
— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson
... alone clear-eyed, strong-kneed, To Him true service render, And they who need his hand to lead, Find they his heart untender? Through all your various ranks and fates He opens doors to duty, And he that waits there at your gates Was ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... as it rose over the plain, and the light steadily shone in Jessamine's window. Soon young Billy fell asleep, and I looked at him, thinking how in a way it was he who had brought this trouble on the man who had saved him and loved him. But that man had no such untender thoughts. Once more the door opened, and it was he who came this time, alone also. She did not follow him and stand to watch him from the threshold, though he forgot to close the door, and, coming over to me, stood ...
— Lin McLean • Owen Wister |
