Caressing

Examples

• Dorothea spoke in a full cordial tone, half caressing, half explanatory. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She kissed the boy, and said, caressing him, 'It is for thine own dear sake. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But, on stroking her cheek in a caressing way soon after, he was almost shocked to find her face wet with tears. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She held my hand between hers, and at each favourable word gave it a little caressing stroke. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A short man was his Lordship, broad-chested and bow-legged, but proud of the fineness of his foot and ankle, and always caressing his garter-knee. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I think I won't use it all up tonight, said Charley devotedly, when six or eight minutes had been passed by him caressing her hand. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Margaret knelt by him, caressing him with tearful caresses. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He sat silent, still caressing Tartar, who slobbered with exceeding affection. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As he stood, mute and grave, she again fell to caressing Carlo. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• When he was disobedient she cuffed him, it is true, but she was never cruel to him, and was more often caressing him than chastising him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Then I am a brute, said Lydgate, caressing her penitently. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She was caressing the said Tartar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He had assumed a bantering air: a light, half-caressing, half-ironicshone aslant in his eye. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He laid his hand on one of hers with a caressing gesture, upon which she let it remain, but snatched up a cornflower with the other. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Caroline kissed her, in her gentle, caressing way, saying softly, I love you dearly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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