1759 examples of caress in sentences

And no bold Spy dares view when Gods caress, Then I'll conduct thee to the Banks of Bliss.

The pony lifted his head to meet the caress, and then these two orphans of the wilderness looked out dimly, wondering, over this wonderful new country into which both were come, without knowing how or why or whence, through no will or choice of their own.

] Still follow where auspicious fates invite; Caress the happy, and the wretched slight.

"They hid themselves on the highest mountains which caress the sky with their misty locks.

My left-hand neighbor was indifferent in choice, and ate everything nearest to him first, and without order, taking feis or bananas or a goldfish, dozens of shrimps, a few prawns, a crayfish, and several varos, but informing me, with a caress of his rounded stomach, that he was saving most of his hunger for the chicken, pig, and poi.

Hasten, hand in human hand, Down the dark, the flowered way, Along the whiteness of the sand, And in the water's soft caress Wash the mind of foolishness, Mamua, until the day. Spend the glittering moonlight there, Pursuing down the soundless deep Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair; Or floating lazy, half-asleep.

He reproaches himself with having treated her so brutally, when the poor animal, who alone had accompanied him into exile, at first accosted him with a caress.

To amuse him, she resorts to a thousand expedients, a thousand tricks of the agility peculiar to her race; she goes, she comes, she runs, she leaps, she bounds, she chatters at his side; she tries to people his solitude, to make a rustling around him; she brings him his pipes, rocks him in his hammock, and, for all these cares, all this attention, demands only a caress, which is no longer refused.

Thinking it some caress or trick of Marimonda, risen earlier than usual, he half opens his eyes, sees nothing, and places himself again in a posture to continue his nap.

To her first caress I replied only by brutality; the first shot I fired in this island was directed against her.

And all at once, she started to her feet, in the very middle of a caress.

And there she cast herself into his arms, whispering in his ear, very low, so as to caress it as she spoke with her lips:

Then in the deep water Tedge lunged up for the flat keel, and slowly across his brow an invisible hand seemed to caress him.

"Don't remind me of it!" Her laugh had in it a thrill that was like a caress.

Dick made a slight movement as if the caress were not wholly welcome, but after a moment he reached up and grasped the squire's hand.

" He bent without words and set his lips to her forehead, keeping them there in mute caress while she went on.

German bards and artists' powers, Woman's truth, and fond caress, Fame eternal shall be ours, Beauty's smile our toils shall bless.

But the mother, though in some sort she returned the caress, said not a word as her daughter left the room.

From that time on Sahwah could hardly bear to have Veronica out of her sight; she wanted to be with her all day long; she was filled with a desire to protect her, to mother her, to caress her, to make her great dark eyes light with laughter, to go off alone with her, to discuss with her in private confidences the momentous affairs of girlhood.

Veronica came up close to Sahwah and slipped a hand around each of her elbows and squeezed them, her favorite caress.

The lash of spring was stirring all the impulses of life with its exciting caress, and goading every feeling to new intensity.

The fields were quivering voluptuously under the rays of the moon; and they, two young hearts, feeling the flutter of Love's wings about their hair, why should they sit unresponsive there, blind to the beauty of the night, deaf to the infinite caress that was echoing from all around? "Leonora! Leonora!"

I hate to caress you inside four walls, as if you were only a passing whim.

She was affecting a mood of hectic cheerfulness, trying to drown her worries by sheer force, overwhelming her lover with a flood of light, frivolous chatter; but suddenly, at the limit of her endurance, she gave way, and in the middle of a caress, burst into tears and sank to a divan, sobbing as if her heart would break.

The hand must tend toward the loved being to caress, to grasp, to reassure or to defend.

1759 examples of  caress  in sentences