Her cheeks glowed; but her lover, who on this mild spring night, should have been talking with and caressing her, came not.
On one side of the river was the noise and bustle of the crowded fair; on the other, in the shade of the elms and willows, hidden from all the world, sat Anton and Thoma, caressing each other.
His right hand, which had been caressing her hair unceasingly from her forehead downwards to her neck, for a moment pressed her crown almost painfully, as if by the closer contact gathering strength for the approaching life's battle.
And then he began to talk in his low deliberate caressing voice, while his piercing eyes wandered up and down her.
There it was again, that dark caressing glance--cold, and yet how seductive!
Yes, if it's comfortable," he answered; and there was a caressing yielding in his tone that sent a warm glow through her limbs.
Mrs. Patterson put a caressing hand on the child's head but did not speak.
When they got outside, her voice grew caressing again as she led the way to a path up among the young beeches.
And when he felt he could bear no more, she flung the instrument aside, and leant over his chair again--caressing his curls with her dainty fingers, and purring unknown strange words in his ear.
Your caressinghand sank away in his fur with dreamy languor.
When a steamer arrived fathers might be seen caressing little ones whom they now saw for the first time, while the children, in their turn, were frightened at finding themselves in the arms of such fierce-looking men.
For presently it had come on to rain--a thick, dank rain, which wetted through all covering, yet fell soft as caressing on the skin.
Well," said I, pausing in the caressingof my chin, "what do I worse every day than make love to Katrin Texel?
You must do as the doctors wish, dear," said Greta in a caressing voice.
But she spoke in a slow mechanical way, and seemed to the other strangely cold and irresponsive; she shivered a little, too, when the caressing hand touched her neck, as if the warm fingers had seemed icy cold.
Mary turned away, shaking the caressing hand off with a gesture of scorn.
Your instinct was not at fault, Fan," she said in a caressing tone.
When she had finished caressing the girl she remained standing for some time silent beside the bed, her eyes cast down as if in thought, and an expression half melancholy but strangely tender and beautiful on her face.
Ah, if her cold cheek might keep for all the remaining days of her life the sensation of those warm caressing lips, of that warm sweet breath!
The guards standing about pulled him back, while the plump, smiling little man, caressing his sandy mustache and humming a tune, went out into the street.
He ceased abruptly as Chambannes entered, wearily caressing his thick hinge-like mustache.
Suddenly, a joyful flicker swiftly passed over her caressing eyes.
Chambannes' fervent glances, or the caressing roll of her r's which made her voice softly imperious.
I am that, my darling, in spite of all your faults," he said, caressing her tenderly.
Yes, my darling," he said, smiling upon the little girl, and smoothing her hair with softly caressing hand.
My dear child," he said gravely, smoothing her hair with caressing hand as he spoke, "do not ever again give your father the pain of punishing you.
Yes, yes indeed, little daughter," he replied, laying a caressing hand upon her head for an instant.
As Dorn moved politely from figure to figure, the old man like a museum monitor at his heels, Lockwood went on explaining in a caressing sing-song: "This old boy came to New York when he was in his twenties.
He sat hoping feverishly, caressing a diagnosis as if he could establish it by repeating it over and over.
He sat beside Anna, caressing her hand, smiling back into her passion-filled eyes, and gently checking an impulse in him to confide to her that he was in love with Rachel.
All the coming years shall compensate for all we have lost in the past," said Salome, gayly caressing him.
Mrs. Lawson spoke with a smile on her lips, and with a soft caressing voice, but a hard and selfish nature shone palpably from her blue eyes.
Mrs. Lawson gave her husband an emphatic, but, at the same time, cunningly caressing and smiling look.
He had a short-cropped mustache, one corner of which he was always caressing with a protruding under-lip.
It pumped blood, too, as well as sap, and made hearts flutter to strange irregular rhythms with the languorous insolence of its perfumes, and the soft caressing pressures of its south wind.
Lyubka gazed up at him with a sly and caressing look.
Here there was the scent of spring, and a warm caressing wind was blowing.
When he gradually lost his shyness through Elsa's soft voice and caressing manner, and approached her and answered her questions, she noticed that he had adopted the common broad accent of the nurse.
A proud drawing up of the body, andcaressing sinking backward!
Never before had she taken trouble to inform Felix of one of her expensive wishes with so many caressing digressions.
He indeed frequently overwhelmed the little one with passionate tenderness, but the games, the caressing teasing, which had formerly occupied them when together, and which had so delighted the boy, had ceased.
Mrs. Eldridge had no definite plan of mischief; she only wanted the luxury of caressing her favourite subject.
Miss Mary caressingstill at the hand upon the coverlet, and with an arm about the boy.
What he had been so fervently caressing against his side had been no more romantic than bread and cheese and some more substantial augmentation for the poor table of the old woman they were going to meet!
Lost to sight, they sank in the crystal waters which leaped with a caressing murmur toward the table-land; only the tiny spectrum, vivid reminder of their color, still waved and wavered from rock to rock above a pellucid pool.
He gazed at her long and earnestly, his look caressing her wherever she moved.
Lilias laughed, gave a caressing little squeeze to his hand, but stood firmly in her position.
When he was settled she knelt beside him to exchange greetings, putting her hand on his with a caressing gesture, and he held it firmly while he replied, as if gaining strength from the contact.
But at present she knew she could sway him as she would, and she touched the orchids at her belt with tender littlecaressing movements and melting looks.
Well, I have again seen this girl of the gold eyes, this woman caressing her chimera.
All the rapture of love surely was latent in the freedom of her expressive glances, in her caressing tones, in the charm of her words.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caressing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
