Sister Verna tenderly stroked the sniffling face before her.

The concern confused her, as did the hand tenderly stroking her cheek.

Reaching forward she tenderly stroked his cheek, then she rose and stretched.

"I know of a sunlit field where no one can find us," she whispered, tenderly stroking his long hair back from his handsome face.

Denna looked back to Richard and tenderly stroked his chest.

"New life," she murmured, brushing her hand across the glass, as though tenderly stroking a sister's brow.

With his one hand, he tenderly stroked the white hair.

He smoothed his bald head and tenderly stroked the fringe of hair that had been left him.

She yawned, relaxing as his hands kept tenderly stroking her hair.

Along the ridge of swollen flesh she tenderly stroked the inflamed muscles.