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"Tenderfoot" Quotes from Famous Books

... ears, chiding him as she might a child. This made the cowboys laugh. Cowboys when subduing broncos do not ordinarily do so with anything resembling baby talk, and it was their firm conviction that this pretty young tenderfoot from the east was about to get the surprise of her life. Instead of feeling sorry for her, however, the souls of the cowboys were filled with joy at the prospect of some real fun. It was not often that they were privileged to see an innocent ...

— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert • Jessie Graham Flower

... Anyone who saw the tenderfoot pilgrimage to the Alaskan goldfield in '97-8 and the same crowd six months later will understand what had happened to these men. The puny had put on muscle; the city dweller had blown his lungs; the fat man had lost some adipose; social differences of habit ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... majesty, when the elms display their lofty, graceful, vase-like forms, and when every other tree of the forest exhibits its peculiar beauty of trunk, and branch, and twig. Often January is a most propitious month for the tenderfoot nature-lover. Such was the year which has just passed. During the first part of the month the weather was almost springlike; so bright and balmy that a robin was seen in an apple-tree, and the brilliant plumage ...

— Some Winter Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell

... eh? But what's that got to do with finding a trail, or following one that's already found?" asked the latest tenderfoot. ...

— Pathfinder - or, The Missing Tenderfoot • Alan Douglas

Words linked to "Tenderfoot" : initiate, tyro, tiro, novice, beginner