And that something would embrace and caress me. Yet, all at once, I should feel troubled, and not know her. "If it be you," I should say to her, "show yourself more distinctly, so that I may embrace you in return." And her voice would answer me, "Do you not feel happy thus?" and I should reply, "Yes, I do, but you cannot REALLY caress me, and I cannot REALLY kiss your hand like this." "But it is not necessary," she would say. "There can be happiness here without that,"--and I should feel that it was so, and we should ascend together, ever higher and higher, until--英文原著 · 《Boyhood》
At last he rose and kissed her on the brow and let his hand rest gently on her shoulder--what a difference between those caresses and the caresses that had made her beg him to be "kind" to her! Said he:英文原著 · 《The Dust》
We have drunken of Lethe at length, we have eaten of lotus;
What hurts it us here that sorrows are born and die? We have said to the dream that caressed and the dread that smote us
Goodnight and goodbye.英文原著 · 《A Century of Roundels》
But she had run to the big beast's head with another shout, and caught him round his foreleg, laughing, and Rake bent his head down and nosed her in a fumbling caress, on which, the bridle coming within her reach, she seized it and held his head that she might pat him, to which familiarity the beast was plainly well accustomed.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
It was not a minute after this grateful caress that Clorinda made a sharp movement--a movement which was so sharp that it seemed to be one of dismay. At first, as if involuntarily, she had raised her hand to her tucker, and after doing so she started--though 'twas but for a second's space, after which her face was as it had been before.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Her ladyship left caressing her spaniel and stood upright. Little Nero was frightened, fearing she was angered; she stood so straight and tall, but she said nothing and passed on.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Yeah. Well, you brought up academic competition, she started caressing her own hand.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
Just think of me as a blob of clay, waiting for your experienced hands to caress and coax me-- First rule of golf-- shh.美剧 · 《Modern Family》