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Pressed in sentence

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For fear of seeming ridiculous, Emma before going in wished to have a little stroll in the harbour, and Bovary prudently kept his tickets in his hand, in the pocket of his trousers, which he pressed against his stomach.
He pressed Lucy in his arms, he left her, he came back, he seemed desperate; he had outbursts of rage, then elegiac gurglings of infinite sweetness, and the notes escaped from his bare neck full of sobs and kisses.
Leon swiftly pressed his lips to it.
And as they were both standing up, he behind her, and Emma with her head bent, he stooped over her and pressed long kisses on her neck.
At last she ran to his office; and, lost in all sorts of conjectures, accusing him of indifference, and reproaching herself for her weakness, she spent the afternoon, her face pressed against the window-panes.
"But I was pressed myself; the knife was at my own throat."
She turned coward; she implored him; she even pressed her pretty white and slender hand against the shopkeeper's knee.
He pressed her hand, but it felt quite lifeless.
The priest rose to take the crucifix; then she stretched forward her neck as one who is athirst, and glueing her lips to the body of the Man-God, she pressed upon it with all her expiring strength the fullest kiss of love that she had ever given.
He had taken her hands and pressed them, shuddering at every beat of her heart, as at the shaking of a falling ruin.
He rose, pressed their hands, unable to speak.
One day, however, he sat down before it, turned the key, and pressed the spring.
Although greatly moved himself, he was struck by the icy coldness of the hand he was clasping; he pressed it with convulsive force; a last attempt was made to remove it from him, but finally the hand was left in his grasp.
When Madame Derville repeated her suggestion that they should go into the drawing-room, Julien pressed the hand that lay in his.
But if Julien had been in love with her he would have seen her, behind her half-closed shutters on the first floor, her face pressed to the glass.
His own hand was pressed, but this afforded him no pleasure.
Julien once more withdrew his hand from that of Madame de Renal, then took her hand again and pressed it.
On the way from the dining-room to the garden, she pressed Julien's hand.
It was then only that Julien, pressed against the gilded door, caught sight, beneath a girl's bare arm, of the charming statue of Saint Clement.
Suddenly he saw a cheek pressed to the pane to which his eye was applied.
'This fatal relapse destroys all my self-esteem, and dooms me to lifelong misery,' and she pressed him to her heart.
The young men turned round to see who the fortunate person was who was being thus pressed for an answer.
Carried away by a mad impulse, Julien pressed it to his lips.
It was I, I admit, with a blush, to my best friend, and never shall such an admission be made to any other, it was I who one day in the garden pressed his arm.
To find such sentiments, we must go back to the days of the heroes; it was love of this nature that set hearts throbbing in the age of Charles IX and Henri III.'Amid the most impassioned transports, when she pressed Julien's head to her heart: 'What!' she said to herself with horror, 'can this precious head be doomed to fall?
Very well!' she added, inflamed by a heroism that was not devoid of happiness, 'my lips, which are now pressed against these dear locks, will be frozen within twenty-four hours after.'Memories of these moments of heroism and fearful ecstasy seized her in an ineluctable grip.
Madame Derville herself had her handkerchief pressed to her eyes.
But it was just as possible that he had not even been listening as he had his hand pressed firmly down on the table and seemed to be comparing the length of his fingers.
He finally kissed her on her neck and her throat and left his lips pressed there for a long time.
Many of them had brought pillows that they had put between their heads and the ceiling so that they would not hurt themselves pressed against it.
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