What is "caress"

Usage examples of "caress".

Instead, it gave me what felt like an amoebic version of a caress, then flowed out from under my hand.

His thumb zeroed in on the sensitive flesh above her anklebone and he began stroking her in a lazy, soothing caress.

Lavington had cast off her usual primness, and seemed to-night, for the first time in her life, in an exuberant good humour, which she evinced by snubbing her usual favourite Honoria, and lavishing caresses on Argemone, whose vagaries she usually regarded with a sort of puzzled terror, like a hen who has hatched a duckling.

She was stirring and excited, but I calmed her down with whispers and caresses of her head and spine, until she conked back out the way small children do.

Boda knew all about how the cops and cabs were supposed to be working together for the common good these days, so she had set the blades to caress level only.

Although it had been a warm summer, the creek water was still cool and refreshing, caressing his naked body as ice calms a bum, the gentle pressure of the current soothing his muscles, tense from a hard ride on Morgan.

Just as then Van was hypocrite enough to treat Cordula as a whore and to be wildly jealous of her relations with Ada, so now he caresses Cordula under the dining-car table as he seeks from her the address of one rival and thinks of accosting a whore while looking out for the other rival he hopes to destroy.

His soft hair brushed her face as he lowered his mouth to the skin exposed by her low-cut cotehardie, kissing the top swell of the breasts that his fingers caressed into peaks of yearning.

He touched the lobe of her ear, caressed the curve of her neck before slipping his long fingers into her hair, tunneling through the dark red curls, cradling her head.

He stood in silent reflection, drinking in the scents of the cypress and pines that surrounded the garden, admiring the play of light on clumps of shiny green cycadales, enjoying one last time the caress of the warm wind off the island-studded sea.

Occasionally Brother Carpenter stopped to frown disapprovingly at it, then to work on the creases around the eyes with a dental pick, or caress between the fingers with fine sandpaper.

Lasan holding her lips captive as Drago caressed her shoulders and back with gentle licks and hot kisses.

I fancied the countess sensible like an Englishwoman, passionate like a Spaniard, caressing like a Frenchwoman, and as I had a good enough opinion of my own merit, I did not doubt for a moment that she would respond to my affection.

Mrs Dene, with the tender pride that made her faultfinding like a caress.

The fraternal love, the delight beaming upon those two beautiful faces, with a slight shade of confusion on that of the sister, the pure joy shining in the midst of their tender caresses, the most eloquent exclamations followed by a still more eloquent silence, their loving looks which seem like flashes of lightning in the midst of a dew of tears, a thought of politeness which brings blushes on her countenance, when she recollects that she has forgotten her duty towards a nobleman whom she sees for the first time, and finally there was my part, not a speaking one, but yet the most important of all.