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Get put on hold often enough, wander through enough retail stores or tacky cocktail lounges, and sooner or later its limpid strains will caress you.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2012

Take care, Planchet; for if Porthos begins to like you too much, he will caress you; and if he caresses you, he will knock you as flat as a pancake.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

Take care, Planchet; for if Porthos begins to like you so much, he will caress you, and if he caresses you he will knock you as flat as a pancake.

From Louise de la Valliere by Dumas père, Alexandre

Birds that are prisoned will caress any hand that offers them freedom.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Green, Anna Katharine

Inspired by the divine instinct of motherhood, the girl that can only creep to her mother's knees will caress a doll, that her tottling brother looks coldly upon.

From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Clarke, Edward Hammond