He ran his fingers along the driver's side door, the way a mother strokes a child's cheek.

Then she lay back into the pillows and closed her eyes, as her mother stroked her hand.

His mother stroked his brow and whispered soothing, loving words.

Another mother from the group stood beside her and stroked her trembling shoulders.

She realized that through it all, her mother had been stroking the crown of her bowed head.

For a few moments, her mother stroked her hair.

Her mother sat next to her and stroked her arm.

The mother stroked her baby's back to soothe him, and put him to sleep.

Her mother stroked her face comfortingly as she answered: 'But, my dear, it is more than two years since you saw him.

When the herd paused, the babies stopped to nurse, and the mothers stroked them with their trunks.