tender-hearted

When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman.

I didn't know you was so tender-hearted,' said the serjeant.

"He must be steady, and civil, and sober, and expert, and tender-hearted," said Miss Emmerson, who thought of any thing but a hero in disguise.

But while hapless Dough-Boy was by nature dull and torpid in his intellects, Pip, though over tender-hearted, was at bottom very bright, with that pleasant, genial, jolly brightness peculiar to his tribe; a tribe, which ever enjoy all holidays and festivities with finer, freer relish than any other race.

"Oh, poor, poor Paddy," said tender-hearted Cecily tearfully.

These tender-hearted gentry should consider that it's not merely a squire, but a governor they are asking to whip himself; just as if it was 'drink with cherries.' Let them learn, plague take them, the right way to ask, and beg, and behave themselves; for all times are not alike, nor are people always in good humour.

What could the worthy captain do, to console the tender-hearted old squaw, and, peradventure, to save the venerable patriarch from a curtain lecture?

That's the action-packed opening of Suzanne Nelson's tender-hearted Dust Bowl fantasy, A Tale Magnolious (Knopf, $16.99, 9781984831743, eBook available, ages 8 to 12).

She has a strong character but is also tender-hearted."

At about this time, he adopted the pen name Mushfig ("tender-hearted" from Perso-Arabic).