Although possessed of neither soul nor conscience, the butterfly had a very tender heart, and now decided it could endure this boy no longer.

It is his vulnerable, tender heart and his susceptibility to the protestations of love from a dissembling woman that is the focus of the plot.

How in ridiculing his unarmored, vulnerable prose they broke his too tender heart and helped destroy him.

"Master Thorn," said Dona Vorchenza, "you have a curiously tender heart, for a thief of your appetites."

Her heart, her deep, strong, tender heart, is present on every page of Christiana's noble history.

He wanted to keep her with him, wanted her warmth, her softness, her open, tender heart, where he could touch them.

She had a very tender heart, because of the way she had been raised.

Why, bless you mistress, I've the tenderest heart alive.

Henry has a very tender heart.

But even the tenderest heart, the most given to pity, could not have said the same for Jack.