What is "caressingly"

Usage examples of "caressingly".

Almost caressingly, the bees brought the unprotesting Henry David to the ground.

Hushed were the eager people as they gazed, hushed were the Virgins and Elders, while Anne stood motionless amid the roseate light which lingered caressingly about her till the whole of the slender girlish form was bathed in unearthly brilliance.

Redegonde wanted a rest, as indeed did I, but she had to give way when I said caressingly that we could sleep at Minden.

He embraced her then, gently, caressingly, letting her know how much he had missed the simple contact of her skin.

Thus was she, too, being put into her woman's harness of the bit and the blinkers, and taught to know herself for the weak thing, the gentle parasite, which the fiction of our civilization expects her, caressingly and contemptuously, to become in the active, while it is exacted of hero Comedy of Clowns!

He pressed caressingly the carved calyxes, once, twice, a third time even as she had— and silently and softly the wall began to split.

He pressed caressingly thecarved calyxes, once, twice, a third time even as she had and silentlyand softly the wall began to split.

His hands, moving caressingly rather than groping over Elephant's cool side, quickly found the recessed steps and grips.

Coelura trilled a reassurance as she sat up and the covering lapped itself caressingly about her.

Some of the volumes had the ripe tints of good tooling and old morocco, and her eyes lingered on them caressingly, not with the appreciation of the expert, but with the pleasure in agreeable tones and textures that was one of her inmost susceptibilities.