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CARESS
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Traducere în limba română
caress I. verb tranzitiv
a mângâia, a dezmierda, a alinta; a răsfăţa.
caress II. substantiv
mângâiere, dezmierdare, alintare.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
She took him up in her arms—oh my goodness!—and caressed him, but he persisted upon barking still.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
He glanced at the titles and the authors' names, read fragments of text, caressing the volumes with his eyes and hands, and, once, recognized a book he had read.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
White Fang snarled at the sound of his voice, but this time did not leap away from under the hand that was caressing his head and the back of his neck with long, soothing strokes.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
She always observed this quickly, I thought, and always roused him with a question or caress.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Rosa kneeling at her feet, by turns caresses her, and quarrels with her; now fiercely telling her, I loved him better than you ever did!—now soothing her to sleep on her breast, like a sick child.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)