The custom with the express riders, when within half a mile of a station, was either to begin shouting or blowing a horn in order to notify the stock tender of his approach, and to have a fresh horse already saddled for him on his arrival, so that he could go right on without a moment's delay.

This I took out of the earth and tendered to my master, having previously engaged a free negro man to take take his security for it, as I was the property of my master, and therefore could not safely take his obligation myself.

He had seen her face grave and tender in the twilight, and he knew.

he asked in tones as tender as a woman's.

Stuff each with chopped oysters and bits of butter and let stew until tender with 1 onion, 2 sprigs of parsley and 1 bay-leaf.

Even so, high and clear above the voices of the world, deeper and tenderer than any other word or tone, comes the voice of Jesus to the soul of man.

"Why, no! Poor little Anne!" Mr. Charteris's eyes grew tender for a moment, because his wife, in a fashion, was dear to him.

He certainly looked as if he believed it when Lady Mealhead told himand his expressive Gallic eyes waxed tender at the mention of her mother, the relict of the late clergyman, whose name had somehow been overlooked by Crockford.

" We may easily conceive that a person so scrupulous and tender on this subject, (as indeed John Woolman was on all others,) was in the way of becoming in time more eminently serviceable to his oppressed fellow-creatures.

She was very tender towards Grey's condition, and the sight gave me no jealousy, for in that tense hour all things were forgotten but life and death.

In the meantime let me tell you one important thingif you have not made the heart of Lou tender toward you, you have at least frightened her.

"How sad when lack of faith doth part The tender from the toughened heart!"

In coming this morning from Mühlheim to Elberfeld, my heart was tendered under a sense of the Lord's mercies.

Deeply corporealised, and enchained hopelessly in the grovelling fetters of externality, must be the mind, to which, in its better moments, the image of the high-souled, high-intelligenced Quixotethe errant Star of Knighthood, made more tender by eclipsehas never presented itself, divested from the unhallowed accompaniment of a Sancho, or a rabblement at the heels of Rosinante.

But yet it doth be verity that I was truly angered, and fit to shake Mine Own, and in the same moment to be utter tender unto her.

My friend bore a long and powerful testimony, to the tendering of many present.

He reads to us from it some of his favorite lines, and the tones of his voice are very tender over his dead friend's poem.

I could have told Billy that, but some way I always feel tender about his illusions.

Drain, and stew or steam till very tender along with some shred onion and tomatoes previously fried together, without browning, in 1 oz. butter.

Q.How are the pipes connecting the tender and locomotive constructed, so as to allow of play between the engine and tender without leakage?

My short life in different places; not comfortable places, but large places; all was free and open, and there was always a kind voice in my earlike yours; and a tender touchlike yours.

What a dull ass was I, I could not see this wencher from a wench: twenty to one, if I had been but tender like my Sister, he had served me such a slippery trick too.

This indifference was so offensive to his high heart, that he began to change the Tender into the Terrible, and, in short, proceeded at last to treat her in a style too grossly insulting for the meanest female ear to endur unresented.

I was, he says, enabled to address them in German; a precious feeling was over us, and many spirits were tendered before the Lord.

In 1873 Germany made gold the standard throughout the new German Empire (having prepared the way by legislation in 1871 which made gold a legal tender alongside of silver), and provided that silver was thenceforth to be used only in the subsidiary coinage.