What is "cherishing"

Usage examples of "cherishing".

Stephen noticed his hare-lip grinning and he cherishing the curved spike of a boarding-axe, saying over and over again, 'I'll hit the buggers, I'll hit the buggers, I'll hit the buggers.

He began to compose his mind for discorporation, savoring and cherishing all that he had been and seen, with especial attention to this woman creature.

Instead she thought with mild nostalgia of the life they were leaving, calling it up in her mind and cherishing it, some of it in Martian concepts, more of it in English.

At which time, unhurriedly but at once and almost absent-mindedly, the alien nestling which they had returned to his proper world was tapped of what he had learned of his people and dropped, after cherishing, since he was of no further interest to their purposes.

Janine, cherishing her secret joke about their infertility, was not frightened.

Down went the highest pair of heels, up rose the smokiest gentleman, and carefully cherishing his cigar between his fingers, he advanced with a nod and a countenance expressive of nothing but sleep.

The bright-eyed girls are quick to see such traits, and will like you all the better for them, and if death, almost the only power that can part mother and son, should rob you of yours, you will be sure to find a tender welcome and maternal cherishing from some Aunt Priscilla, who has kept the warmest corner of her lonely old heart for `the best nevvy in the world'.

His fingers slid over her, cherishing and parting her in the same loving caress.

His lips and teeth and tongue caressed her, gently cherishing her while he fought to banish the fey nightmare .

And then his head turned, seeking her greatest heat, finding it, cherishing it with an intimate caress that made the breath stop in her throat.

With a shiver of desire, she kissed his hot skin, caressing him, cherishing him with lips and tongue and teeth.

Then his mouth opened over her, cherishing and tasting and loving her responsive flesh.

His hands kneaded from her back to her hips, ravishing and cherishing her in long strokes.

She was touching him as if he were a dream condensing out of firelight, cherishing him in a hushed silence that was itself another kind of caress.

He simply, hungrily, began all over again, memorizing her, leaving none of her hot skin untasted, knowing all of her, cherishing her with a primal sensuality that shattered her.