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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
"Joey dear," she said, in an odd, saturnine caressive voice: "you're bound to find me, aren't you?"
From Wintry Peacock From "The New Decameron", Volume III. by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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 Ball, Alec
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 Stevens, Bertram
She laughed a silvery little mockery, yet intolerably caressive.
From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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