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  • noun Plural form of fondling.

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Examples

  • There was more to come, about various benign fondlings and heads being laid on pillows, but Boswell, who wrote it up over five pages of his journal, decided to leave it out of the biography.

    The Powers of Dr. Johnson O'Hagan, Andrew 2009

  • Over at Slate Dahlia Lithwick has been following this confused but uptight attorney general: In this case, he says he needs to be advised of every breast that's been fondled around the state because each such incident is a crime, yet the vast majority of such fondlings harm no one, as he is well aware.

    Easter Lemming Liberal News 2006

  • Once I had grown accustomed to his fondlings we became close friends and allies, and the Father Guardian's attentions commensurately declined, though whether this was a consequence of my reformed behaviour or, as I now suspect, some pact between them, I neither knew nor cared.

    The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • Once I had grown accustomed to his fondlings we became close friends and allies, and the Father Guardian's attentions commensurately declined, though whether this was a consequence of my reformed behaviour or, as I now suspect, some pact between them, I neither knew nor cared.

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • Forty years on, it is harder to get redress for floggings than for sexual fondlings, and there is no shortage of lawyers actively soliciting custom from victims who might not otherwise have raked over the distant past.

    The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

  • We are now poor, my fondlings, and wisdom bids us conform to our humble situation.

    The Vicar of Wakefield 2004

  • Husky compliments were sure to be followed by fondlings and gropings.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • During those times, whenever he had a chance, he had culminated victories over her in their "fighting exercises" with fondlings, gropings, and eventually much worse indignities, things he'd told her were his right by conquest.

    Acorna's Rebels McCaffrey, Anne 2003

  • In the midst of all these exclamations, embraces, fondlings, and kisses, it may easily be imagined that I stood staring about me with wide eyes and mouth, and half-drained tumbler in hand, like one in a dream.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • Presently the sleeper awoke, and they dressed, Minette again insisting on various squeezings and fondlings, which now produced on Ethel a most strange effect, perfectly incomprehensible to her, whilst Minette seemed also intensely excited.

    The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies Anonymous

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