And instantly Anna's desperate jealousy changed to a desperate, passionate tenderness; she embraced him and covered his head and neck and hands with kisses.

It was laughter, understanding, gentleness, the hunger of the soul met with generosity and endless, passionate tenderness.

I sometimes expostulated with Perdita on the subject of her reserve; but she rejected my counsels, while her daughter's sensibility excited in her a tenderness still more passionate.

He, her beloved, the sole and eternal object of her passionate tenderness, was restored her.

Dathanja made no exhibitions of passionate tenderness, and none of aversion.

Who will undertake to account for that seemingly inexplicable mixture of love and vanity, that passionate tenderness of feeling, that prodigious duplicity of conduct?

I don't know about that," he said, his eyes devouring her face with bright, passionate tenderness, "but I know how eager I'll be to get back home to you.

All at once he kissed her with passionate tenderness.

After dropping their children off at the boarding school, Jean-Louis and Anne drive into town where they rent a room and begin to make love with passionate tenderness.

Thomas Seymour pressed it impulsively to his lips, and looked with passionate tenderness into her face.