velvet glove

Bratton claims he was “furious” at the disrespect, but he informed his officers that “I issue no mandates and I make no threats of discipline” because he thought the right touch was “a velvet glove, not a hammer.”

It was something quite unique, impossibly velvet and probably never to be repeated.

This explains the crumpled look of his beautiful red velvet suit paired with cowboy boots and a flowery style shirt.

Waters became really famous after Tipping The Velvet was made into a TV drama in 2002.

I felt a community of lesbian readers might find Tipping The Velvet fun.

Kimberlin, who looks and softly speaks like a miniaturized clone of David Strathairn, could not lay a glove on his tormenter.

He stooped over her hand, and slobbered kisses upon her unresponsive glove.

She had taken off her glove now, and her palm left on his a reminiscence of Peau d'Espagne.

The girl began to hum, as she powdered her nose with a white glove, lying in a powder box.

Round her neck depended from a black velvet band, strings of diamonds of great size and magnificence.

The quiet of the deserted building incircled the little, glowing room as the velvet incircles the jewel in its case.