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Olly was playing cat's-cradle with the good-natured Mr. Upjohn, and merely kicked out at his caresser, as a warning that he was not to be interrupted.

From Only an Incident by Litchfield, Grace Denio

In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well as forward sluing, To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing, Absorbing all to myself and for this song.

From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt

He was accused, as has been suggested, by Holbach's circle "de caresser les gens en place, et d'abandonner ceux qui n'y sont plus."

From Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France by Cushing, Max Pearson