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One more time, he is caressing his baby.

From Time • Sep. 30, 2013

You know well enough that your father would even coin false money to please you, so do you entreat him when he is caressing you to marry me and make me Princess.

From Stories from the Pentamerone by Basile, Giambattista

The Master said to him: 'O beautiful young man, you are caressing a serpent; and a serpent is caressing you.

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Flaubert, Gustave

And Uncle Theodore is quite confused; just now she was weeping and now she is laughing; just now she was going to marry one man and now she is caressing another.

From Invisible Links by Lagerlöf, Selma

We had never seen Miss March show fondness, that is, caressing fondness, to any one before.

From John Halifax, Gentleman by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock