had fondled
- past perfect of fondle.
Example Sentences
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To say good-bye forever to the human friends who loved him, and the dear, dumb friends whom he had fondled and tended with such constant care.
From A Beautiful Possibility by Black, Edith Ferguson
The mother, so severe in the presence of the father, had fondled and wept over him.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
But it was just as familiar to his recollection as that of the cat which he had fondled in his childhood.
From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
One kept awake to tend her child in its cradle, lulling it with the household words that had fondled her own infancy.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri
Every pulse of my being thrilled with indignation at the indifferently chill way in which he, the man who had fondled her and pretended to love her, now spoke of the child.
From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie
