Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Tender
Tender as a bud.
—Anonymous
Tender as a capon.
—Anonymous
Tender as a woman.
—Anonymous
As tender as the murmur of the rain when great clouds gather.
—Edwin Arnold
Tender as the midnight moon.
—Alfred Austin
Buds tenderly …
Like a smile striving with a wrinkled face.
—Robert Browning
He is as tender of his clothes, as a coward is of his flesh, and as loath to have them disordered.
—Samuel Butler
Tender light, like the first moonrise of midnight.
—Lord Byron
Tender as April twilight.
—Bliss Carman
Tendre as dewe of flouer.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Tendre as is a chicke.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Tender as a fond young lover’s dream.
—John Cunningham
Tender as a lamb.
—Charles Dickens
Tender as russet crimson dropt on snows.
—Jean Ingelow
Tender as the breast of a mother.
—Robert G. Ingersoll
Tender as a summer night.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Tender, as if it twinned with sorrow.
—Henry Mackenzie
Tender as a summer heaven.
—Gerald Massey
Tender, like a mother’s dream of her child.
—George Meredith
Tender as a woman when wounds should be staunched for the broken and ruined and routed.
—Richard Realf
Tender as dawn’s first hill-fire.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Tender as infancy and grace.
—William Shakespeare
Tender as a youthful mother’s joy.
—Robert Southey
Tender as a hurt bird’s note.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Tender as tears.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Tender as sun-smitten dew.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Tender as the inside of the eyelid.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Tender as love’s tear when youth and beauty die.
—William Winter