151 collocations for stroke

She held her cheek to his so that her tears veered out of their course, zigzagging down to his waistcoat, stroked his hair, placing her rich, moist lips to his eyelids.

It's a poor place here for yer bright oies and soft hands, me lads; but I'm not the wan to throw the dish after th' milk when it's spilt!" He stroked the bared heads of the blushing lads, and, turning to their unhappy sponsor, he added with official brevity: "I will put Twiggs's son at me papers in the adjutant's office.

Of course Blossy would "get over" this; and Angy knew that his heart was hers as much as it had been the day he purchased his wedding-beaver; but Abe could not refrain from a chuckle of complacent amusement as he stroked his beard.

You sit with committees and stroke your profound chin, or you spend your talent in the market, or run to and fro and wag your tongue in persuasion.

The girl stroked the hand which she still held in both her own.

"I writ this,ef it would be true,what I writ,'The Lord he between me and thee'?" Gaunt passed his fingers now over the misspelled words softly as he would stroke a dead face.

She looked up to stroke his cheek, her face foreshortened.

His soft hat was pulled over his eyes; he stroked softly his little moustache; I caught the white puff of his cigarette.

I think I've conquered you," he said, proudly, as he stroked her glossy neck; "but what a dance you led me.

The Innocent slumbered peacefully, with a smile on his good-humored, freckled face; the virgin Piney slept beside her frailer sisters as sweetly as though attended by celestial guardians, and Mr. Oakhurst, drawing his blanket over his shoulders, stroked his mustaches and waited for the dawn.

I suppose you'll have a muff made out of this nice fur for somebody?" continued Will, stroking the cat.

Liane Delorme solicitously stroked his forehead.

The old man turned about to the fire, and she from her little room brought a low sewing-chair and sat beside him, laying her head on his knee, and he stroking her brow with his brown palm.

He liked itthe softness of their sensitive skins, which were like velvet, and putting up his hands he began to stroke their noses.

" Without raising his head, he reached up to stroke her arm.

At last the beautiful creature tasted the sugar and greedily ate the lumps, permitting Carolyn June gently to stroke the velvety muzzle.

While our hero stalked ahead, stroking his luxuriant whiskers ever and anon, we pursued him at an interval so great that not the most alert citizen of Little Arcady could have suspected this sinister undercurrent to his simple life.

"I am glad to see you back," she said and stroked the dog that leaped upon her.

The shadow of some one approaching it from without fell upon the threshold, and a man entered, dressed in dark blue cottonade, lifting from his head a fine Panama hat, and from a broad, smooth brow, fair where the hat had covered it, and dark below, gently stroking back his very soft, brown locks.

" Stooping suddenly he laid the squirrel upon his open palm and gently stroked the long, silky fur.

He put his fingers through the bars, and stroked the bird's soft feathers.

Then Buddha, by his mysterious, supernatural power, made a cleft in the rock, introduced his hand, and stroked Ânanda's shoulder, so that his fear immediately passed away.

Then she continued a little shyly, as her companion leaned over to stroke my cropped ears "You seem very fond of animals.

Good luck is the gayest of all gay girls, Long in one place she will not stay, Back from your brow she strokes the curls, Kisses you quick and flies away.

Pa tried to soothe the lion by going up to the cage and stroking his mane, but the lion looked cross-eyed and stopped prancing and gave a sneeze right at pa, which blew pa clear across the tent to where the sacred cow had just got hers.

151 collocations for  stroke