Stroking

Examples

• My lady's tongue is like the meadow blades, That cut you stroking them with idle hand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But, on stroking her cheek in a caressing way soon after, he was almost shocked to find her face wet with tears. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It will be an immense care for Jo, said Meg, stroking the head of her one all-absorbing son. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Yes: lively reading that was, said Mr. Ned Van Alstyne, stroking his moustache to hide the smile behind it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• You know what you forbade me at the Maypoling, miss, murmured the lad, without looking at her, and still stroking the firedog's head. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Rouncewell's is so great apparently, mutters the trooper, stroking his chin, that I have as good as half a mind to go back again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Well, well, by-and-by he'll go to his Latin and things, said Mrs. Vincy, soothingly, stroking her son's head. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have good reason to believe, that he took me for a young one of his own species, by his often stroking my face very gently with his other paw. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Her nerves extended into those tresses, and her temper could always be softened by stroking them down. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There, there, Alice, he said, stroking her forehead, try to sleep again, and do not worry your head about bad dreams. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• No, dear, no, said Dorothea, stroking her sister's cheek. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It's your little mind, Demi, replied the sage, stroking the yellow head respectfully. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

Edited by Leah