But the faithful creature [a dog] had soon returned, and comprehending that his mistress was confined in this great stone building, he whined and howled, waiting, within ten feet of the sentinel, a caressive reply.
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Caressive
//kəˈɹɛsɪv//
Synonyms for "caressive" (8 found)
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3 translations across 2 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- hellittely adj (of a diminutive: indicating affection or endearment)
- hyväilevä adj (having the nature of a caress)
Ukrainian
1 entries- пестли́вий adj (of a diminutive: indicating affection or endearment)
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Too true that her soft eyes were constantly suffused with tears, and that, when speaking to me, her voice was inexpressibly tender and caressive—her smile so sad, so pitiful, that it would have touched the heart of a tiger!
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'It's a lovely day, today!' Mrs Bolton would say in her caressive, persuasive voice.
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Under the light she was not so young as the standardized modern frocks assume all women to be, but a woman of thirty, eight years older than the blonde Sadie, who moved automatically to the mirror to take off her hat and make caressive pats at her finely spun hair, while examining her smoothly modelled face with care, a ritual imposed on her by the presence of any mirror.
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