caressive words. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : caressive words; a caressive breeze. From Dictionary.com.
Mrs Bolton would say in her caressive, persuasive voice. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
Always the same soft, caressive, subservient, yet managing voice. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
But to Kate she was very kind, caressive, speaking English in a plaintive faded voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
"Been at home pining for some place to go," said Ernestine drawing the sewing from Bea's hand, and leaning over into that sister's lap with a caressive gesture. From Wordnik.com. [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference
His gestures were caressive yet instinctive with power, and the plants settled ravenously to his touch, seemed to spread their small leaves with immediate life and to become rooted for ever where he left them. From Wordnik.com. [Cider With Rosie]
Clinging around you in amorous folds; caressive, silken. From Wordnik.com. [India's Love Lyrics] Reference
She laughed a silvery little mockery, yet intolerably caressive. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
She was laughing at him, with a little, mock-caressive contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
So sweet you are, with your tinted cheeks and your small caressive hands. From Wordnik.com. [India's Love Lyrics] Reference
Her phrases, so natural, so sincere, in her own tongue, and so caressive, stirred the best in him. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunate Youth] Reference
I can't think where you've found your tongue, all of a sudden, 'said Maggie, with caressive sharpness. From Wordnik.com. [England, My England] Reference
'Only when he's shamming dead,' said the young woman, looking at her young man with caressive tenderness of authority. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
Rivers was evidently not used to eyes with caressive tendencies and they disturbed her, for all her strangely unchildlike character. From Wordnik.com. [That Girl Montana] Reference
'Vieni -- vieni qua,' Hermione was saying, in her strange caressive, protective voice, as if she were always the elder, the mother superior. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
An envelope from him contained two large caressive slips of bluish paper, which when scrutinized with starting eyes turned out to be two one-thousand-franc notes. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
‘Tha’s got such a nice tail on thee,’ he said, in the throaty caressive dialect. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
It is entangled with the bones and ducts, its own shape determined by how the Erection of the Plastic shall proceed: where fast and where slow, where painful and where slithery-cool ... whether areas shall exchange characteristics of hardness and brilliance, whether some areas should be allowed to flow over the surface so that the passage will be a caress, where to orchestrate sudden discontinuities-blows, wrenchings-in among these more caressive moments). From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
Sweet wind caressive and unseen. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams and Dream Stories] Reference
All the caressive touches of thy hands. From Wordnik.com. [Last Poems] Reference
“Well,” she said, caressive, “you won’t give me away, who I am, will you?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
'Joey, dear,' she said, in an odd, saturnine caressive voice, 'you're bound to find me, aren't you?'. From Wordnik.com. [England, My England] Reference
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