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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

She had raised them, had fondled them, and now she sees them again only for a moment!

From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan

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

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

The very dogs wandered in a moody, unsettled way about the house, missing the friendly hands that had fondled and fed them for so many days past, and whining impatiently in the deserted drawing-rooms.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various