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Sophisticates may take scant pleasure in the caressive, high-pitched crooning of Morton Downey but R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. counts as well spent the $108,000 paid him since June.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can't think where you've found your tongue, all of a sudden,' said Maggie, with caressive sharpness.
From England, My England by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The love that ivy-like around a home-land lingers, With soft embrace of breast and green, caressive fingers, We are too young to know.
From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens
Her phrases, so natural, so sincere, in her own tongue, and so caressive, stirred the best in him.
From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke
An envelope from him contained two large caressive slips of bluish paper, which when scrutinized with starting eyes turned out to be two one-thousand-franc notes.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Alec Ball
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