1.   She stroked his head softly.

2.   Melissa took the girl in her arms and gently stroked her head until she became calmer.

3.   Lucy Lane, trying to make contact, got up and stooped over the dog, stroking his head.

4.   Shah leaned over his son, gently stroking his head.

5.   She strokes his head.

6.   Some wives stroked the heads of their slain husbands, whose foreheads were covered by paper bands bearing a Russian Orthodox prayer.

7.   Other patients, in tears, stroked her head and held her hand.

8.   U.S. Representative Tony Hall stroked the heads of malnourished Iraqi children and expressed concern at the lack of medicines in the pharmacy as he toured a pediatric hospital Monday.

9.   She stroked his head as she asked the question pre-occupying the newly-arrived refugees in this northeastern Bosnian town.