He sent her a response, first of bafflement, then fear, then a strange tenderness towards her.

"Maybe," he answered, his eyes watching her carefully, a strange tenderness in their depths.

I deserve--" He stopped because she was staring at him with a strange tenderness that made his mind reel.

A strange tenderness had entered his voice, and roughened it.

Was his strange tenderness a product of that anger?

He felt the ache in his body, the terrible wanting, mingled now with a strange tenderness he had never felt before.

She paused, and the strange tenderness in her voice seemed to hover round us like a memory.

"Let us go, Basil," said Lord Henry, with a strange tenderness in his voice; and the two young men passed out together.

It treated Montgomery with a strange tenderness and devotion.

Mackie's dry fingertips traced Gregg's cheek with a strange tenderness, dragging across stubble.