tendency
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To some extent the success of a garden depends upon favourable conditions of sun, soil, and water, but more upon the choiceness of its contents, the skill of its planting, the lovingness of its tendence.
From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.
How could she have longed to quit that little peaceful room where she had experienced such loving tendence!
From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Then day and night he watched her, and bestowed Of every tendence he could think to give, Which would allay the fever, or imply Relief awhile unto her aching head.
From A Leaf from the Old Forest by Cossar, John D.
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