Fondlings

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There was more to come, about various benign fondlings and heads being laid on pillows, but Boswell, who wrote it up over five pages of his journal, decided to leave it out of the biography. ❋ O'Hagan, Andrew (2009)

Once I had grown accustomed to his fondlings we became close friends and allies, and the Father Guardian's attentions commensurately declined, though whether this was a consequence of my reformed behaviour or, as I now suspect, some pact between them, I neither knew nor cared. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2006)

Over at Slate Dahlia Lithwick has been following this confused but uptight attorney general: In this case, he says he needs to be advised of every breast that's been fondled around the state because each such incident is a crime, yet the vast majority of such fondlings harm no one, as he is well aware. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Forty years on, it is harder to get redress for floggings than for sexual fondlings, and there is no shortage of lawyers actively soliciting custom from victims who might not otherwise have raked over the distant past. ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)

We are now poor, my fondlings, and wisdom bids us conform to our humble situation. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Husky compliments were sure to be followed by fondlings and gropings. ❋ Larry McMurtry (2004)

During those times, whenever he had a chance, he had culminated victories over her in their "fighting exercises" with fondlings, gropings, and eventually much worse indignities, things he'd told her were his right by conquest. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (2003)

In the midst of all these exclamations, embraces, fondlings, and kisses, it may easily be imagined that I stood staring about me with wide eyes and mouth, and half-drained tumbler in hand, like one in a dream. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)

Presently the sleeper awoke, and they dressed, Minette again insisting on various squeezings and fondlings, which now produced on Ethel a most strange effect, perfectly incomprehensible to her, whilst Minette seemed also intensely excited. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Anxiety or loyalty -- that stanchness of heart which braved even the ironical eyes of the black-robed master of medicine -- drove her again to the ailing jester's tent, and, remembering how she had ridden into camp -- and into the august emperor's favor -- these fondlings of fortune looked significantly from one to the other. ❋ Frederic Stewart Isham (N/A)

He passes from one to another, and they are all expecting the little love pats and slaps on their glossy sides, the caressings and fondlings and pleasant greetings of "Chevalier, how are you, old fellow?" ❋ Various (N/A)

If that sheepish softness which often enervates those who are bred like fondlings at home, be carefully to be avoided, it is principally so for virtue’s sake; for fear lest such a yielding temper should be too susceptible of vicious impressions, and expose the novice too easily to be corrupted. ❋ Unknown (1909)

I tired of baby-talk and stereotyped little fondlings; I tired of the latest intelligence from those wonderful workrooms, and showed it all too plainly; we hardly spoke when we were alone together. ❋ Unknown (1906)

She kissed him, pressed him in her arms, regardless of the stains which these frantic fondlings gathered from his breast. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)

But like soft songs and trembling lights and fondlings ❋ Kostes Palamas (1901)

His notions, even among his preachers, were crude; he had seen her whom he had desired to call wife torn from his side, insulted, degraded, banished; he had looked upon his fondlings with an indescribable heart-ache as they were sold from under his eye; he had been trained in theft, dishonesty and duplicity; he had drank deeply from the bitter waters of crime and lewdness. ❋ John Wesley Edward (1896)

He loved her passionately, too; he never had known anything like this affection before; it was such a fresh, trusting tenderness that the same caresses and fondlings always seemed as if novel and unknown heretofore; and their intoxication of love continued to increase, and never seemed -- never was satiated. ❋ Pierre Loti (1886)

The children gathered round her, and hung upon her, undeterred by the fact that she had no kisses or fondlings for them. ❋ Ada Cambridge (1885)

"Thank God you are, my sweet pet, and thank Colonel Burr for saving you," sobbed Madam Blennerhassett, while she gathered the shivering young one into her bosom, and almost extinguished the life that was left in him with tears and fondlings. ❋ William Henry Venable (1878)

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