On another occasion, when his small friend came to receive his caress, he said, laughing, that she would show more taste in selecting a younger gentleman than himself, and, pointing to a youthful officer in a corner of the room, added, "There is the handsome Major Pelham!" which caused that modest young soldier to blush with confusion.

"My child; my darling, my poor child," she cried, sobbing piteously, as she drew her to her heart and looked in her face alternately"my darling, my darling child!" Rhoda could only weep, and return her poor mother's caresses in silence.

" She gave her a swift caress.

Take, then, this counsel, 'tis the last that I shall breathe to thee, Though on the winds I know these words of mine will wasted be: I was the first on whom thou didst bestow the fond caress, And gave those pledges of thy soul, that hour of happiness; Oh, keep the faith of those young days!

But it was extraordinary that Mrs. Lavington had cast off her usual primness, and seemed to-night, for the first time in her life, in an exuberant good humour, which she evinced by snubbing her usual favourite Honoria, and lavishing caresses on Argemone, whose vagaries she usually regarded with a sort of puzzled terror, like a hen who has hatched a duckling.

(25) As she arrived, Death was shamed for a moment, and Adonais breathed again: but immediately afterwards 'Death rose and smiled, and met her vain caress.'

And how well-behaved he was, for it was wonderful to see how quickly he ceased wailing and gave signs of satisfaction when he felt the all-enveloping caress of the warm water.

She was afraid to offer the caress she longed to bestow.

"The bull hath left the lowing kine bereaved, And sulking dies in solitude; The ass hath fled away, his mates hath grieved, And women are no more imbued With love, and drive their husbands far away, And wives enjoy not their caress; All peace and love have gone from earth this day, And love on earth knows not its bliss.

But these are slight and idle thingsmy one, my sole distress Is that I cannot see thy face and welcome thy caress!

The daintily turned chin, sensitive lips, delicate nostrils, and large, blue eyes,with that wide, unafraid look of a child that has never been taught to fear,revealed a spirit fine and rare; while the low, broad forehead, shaded by a wealth of soft brown hair,that, arranged deftly in some simple fashion, seemed to invite the caress of every wayward breath of air,gave the added charm of strength and purpose.

I perceived that she wanted to kiss me; but I avoided the caress.

At either end of the long, white-spread board sat Mr. and Mrs. Orgreave; Alicia stood by Mr. Orgreave, who accepted her caresses with the negligence of a handsome father.

for now the dog was getting too friendly, leaping up and trying to solicit caresses from the girls.

whence it was wont to draw the breath Which gave it strength to pierce the guarded wit, And pass into the panting heart beneath With lightning and with music: the damp death 5 Quenched its caress upon his icy lips;

It is not in resisting advances, nor in taking offense at too bold a caress that a woman is enabled to maintain her virtue.

Does art, wit, wisdom, or address, Obtain the prostitute's caress?

I could resist your caresses, but I am unable to support your affliction.'

She could lovingly call the fond schemer, over and over, a brave, rash, generous little heroine and lay caresses on her twice and again, but to know whether this was Heaven's leading was beyond her.

In this case the sense of the whole passage may be amplified thus: The Splendour, in imprinting its caress upon the icy lips of Adonais, had its caress quenched by the cold, and was itself converted into dampness and deathliness: it was no longer a luminous Splendour, but a vaporous and clammy form of death.

With downy hands the winds caress, With frothy lips the amorous sea, As welcoming the nakedness Of vanished gods, in me.

Many are never seen out of doors without their favorite in their arms; they pay as much as $50 and upwards for these pets, and heap the tenderest caresses on them.

She had grasped his hands by the wrists, as if to hold back their possible caress.

And, hushed the loved lip's fond caress, It answers not: "I have forgiven!" He did forgivelong, long ago!

The wails of the unfortunate cat mingle with the short snapping barks of the pack, or a howl of anguish as puss inflicts a caress on the face of some too careless or reckless dog.