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  • adverb In a fondling manner.

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Examples

  • Justice is again pinnacled here, and on her right, on another pinnacle, is a charming angel, upon whom a lion fondlingly climbs.

    A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

  • He responded gratefully; yet lingered, still listening to the entomologist, until she fondlingly chid him for forgetting that while he had been all day in his swivel-chair, she had passed the hours in unusual fatigues!

    Strong Hearts George Washington Cable 1884

  • "How dare you make appointments with a captain of hussars?" and he bent her knuckles fondlingly.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • 'Is there in the world so lovely a creature?' she said, and appealed fondlingly to the beauty that brings out beauty, and, bidding it disdain rivalry, rivalled it insomuch that in a moment of trance Beauchamp with his bodily vision beheld her, not there, but on the Lido of Venice, shining out of the years gone.

    Beauchamp's Career — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

  • 'Is there in the world so lovely a creature?' she said, and appealed fondlingly to the beauty that brings out beauty, and, bidding it disdain rivalry, rivalled it insomuch that in a moment of trance Beauchamp with his bodily vision beheld her, not there, but on the Lido of Venice, shining out of the years gone.

    Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • "How dare you make appointments with a captain of hussars?" and he bent her knuckles fondlingly.

    Sandra Belloni — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

  • 'Is there in the world so lovely a creature?' she said, and appealed fondlingly to the beauty that brings out beauty, and, bidding it disdain rivalry, rivalled it insomuch that in a moment of trance Beauchamp with his bodily vision beheld her, not there, but on the Lido of Venice, shining out of the years gone.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • "How dare you make appointments with a captain of hussars?" and he bent her knuckles fondlingly.

    Sandra Belloni — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • "This dress," she said, and held up her mother's chin fondlingly between her two hands, "this dress was designed by my friend Merthyr -- that is,

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • "This dress," she said, and held up her mother's chin fondlingly between her two hands, "this dress was designed by my friend Merthyr -- that is,

    Sandra Belloni — Volume 7 George Meredith 1868

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