tender feeling

Hadria found a certain lack of tender feeling among the happy few who had no such tragic burdens to sustain.

"It's a bully room—bully," he said to himself with a tender feeling of possession.

But surely if she had no love, she had at least some tender feeling for me; she would not give her honour to another.

Perhaps it was the old tragic tender feeling for Margery which impelled him.

Soren's complete lack of tender feeling was one of the things that often worried her.