tenderly

“What’s this?” asked Joe, taking the hand tenderly and pulling at some white strands beneath the bandages.

At first she seemed overcome with amazement; then tears flowed from her wondering eyes; and then she smiled sunnily through them, and one of her arms slid tenderly about the broker’s neck.

“Oh, thou art a man’s cub,” said the Black Panther very tenderly.

That was worth a little bruise,” said the brown bear tenderly.