stroked

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Stroked my hair, fed me food; took the far end of the load to make it easier for me to carry.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

And the boy with peals of laughter, Stroked his favorite's head of emerald, Raised his eyes, and lo! before him Stood the yellow-skirted Rabbi.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma

They gazed on its tender whiteness, Stroked the mother's flaxen tresses; "'Tis a snow-papoose" they whispered, "It will melt when comes the summer."

From The White Doe The Fate of Virginia Dare by Cotten, Sallie Southall

And Aulus the Dictator Stroked Auster's raven mane; With heed he looked unto the girths, With heed unto the rein.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various

The child approach'd, and with her fingers light, Stroked my old eyes, almost deprived of sight.—

From May Day with the Muses by Bloomfield, Robert