Tender-handed

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Earlston must have remembered once dining in the Manse of Maxton at a Communion time; for, as his tender-handed wife took her place beside his chair to feed her helpless husband, he always lifted up his palsied hand and always said to himself, to her, and above all, to God, the 131st Psalm.

Source: wiktionary

A momentary coolness from the dark Flows inward on the tender-handed breeze.

Source: wiktionary

"Because I know all about you Gilly girls. Remember when" -- he slid his thumb lower on her neck, down to the spot where her pulse beat-- "you caught that fish and made me throw it back, and then you hooked your hand? I bet you're not so tender-handed now."

Source: wiktionary

Resinous splinters or rolled paper tapers were kept on the fireboard for candle lighters; also perhaps tongs for the tender-handed pipe lighter who could not handle a live coal in his hands.

Source: wiktionary

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