I felt an osculatory unhappiness circumnavigate my soul. From Wordnik.com. [Hope's Amanuensis] Reference
On this the two ladies went through the osculatory ceremony which they were in the habit of performing, and Mrs. Pendennis got. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
"Thusan Thwingle" exchanging osculatory favors with "one of thothe horrid boyths" in the basement of the high school at Montgentian. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
The children insisted on bidding their late chum a cuddling, osculatory farewell -- Alice tearfully holding up the snuffling Porkey for his share. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
The skirl of the pipes and the sight of the kilts moved the population to great enthusiasm, both vocal and osculatory, and we had a regular triumphal procession. From Wordnik.com. [The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919] Reference
"Oh, Marcia, is that you?" says a high, sweet voice, with a little complaining note running through it, and then there is a pause, evidently filled up by an osculatory movement. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
But so far the osculatory experiment has proved a dire failure. From Wordnik.com. [Born Again] Reference
But up to that time we had kept the osculatory incident a profound secret. From Wordnik.com. [More Tish] Reference
The endlessly osculatory, with their protracted salutations, are sickening. From Wordnik.com. [Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things] Reference
But Jeff ignored her and with almost osculatory affection continued to Milt. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
Duchess Jean, by her novel osculatory methods, raised the Gordons in four months. From Wordnik.com. [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference
But the most dangerous behaviors I observed were neither osculatory nor gustatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
They are princes and princesses unto themselves and no osculatory transformation is necessary. From Wordnik.com. [newsday.co.tt] Reference
The usual circular, hieroglyphic and osculatory invitation appears at the lower left-hand corner. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.] Reference
His senses reeled, as under pretence of masking a sneeze he pressed his burning lips to those osculatory crosses. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
But it seems that the melancholy widower was merely collecting material for the following little osculatory problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems] Reference
Now Fanny's costume was too careful, her hair too elaborately arranged, to withstand successfully these osculatory onsets. From Wordnik.com. [Trumps] Reference
In making a list of the company, we can leave out the widower altogether, because he took no part in the osculatory exercise. From Wordnik.com. [The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems] Reference
Her eyes are a trifle too ferrety, but the osculatory power of her mouth in auld lang syne must have been such as to give Cupid spinal curvature. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.] Reference
This is Master Cosmo, who, observing the tea-tray, has the happy notion of interposing it between himself and his father's possible osculatory intentions. From Wordnik.com. [Alice Sit-By-The-Fire] Reference
Farther along in the crowd an Ordinary Seaman, tall and debonair and sleek of hair, bade osculatory farewell to a mother, an aunt, a fiancée and two sisters. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Trick] Reference
She pulled the blue toboggan cap over her head, took a hasty osculatory leave of her father, seized books and lunch basket, and followed her mother to the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Star] Reference
The meeting of the two was not marked by the effusion vocal, gymnastical, osculatory and catechetical that distinguishes the greetings of their unprofessional sisters in society. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference
The osculatory adventure with Sally shrank at once in importance from the fact that Isabel had not only ignored it but had made it wholly unnecessary for him to explain that transaction. From Wordnik.com. [Blacksheep! Blacksheep!] Reference
I should have deemed Miss Jemima's osculatory art as the mere effect of high spirits and hoyden playfulness, had it not been for the hypocrisy that she was displaying towards my messmate. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
Producing from his kammerbund a red handkerchief containing the stolen kerans, he advances and humbly lays it at my feet, at the same time kneeling down and implanting yet another osculatory favor on my geivehs. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
On this the two ladies went through the osculatory ceremony which they were in the habit of performing, and Mrs. Pendennis got a great secret comfort from the little quarrel -- for Laura's confession seemed to say. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
And then there was that other -- "but Turan, seeing a thousand or more years of osculatory memoirs portending, interrupted. From Wordnik.com. [The Chessmen of Mars] Reference
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