Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Tom fondled Mary's breasts.

If you leave, I'll tell all the world you fondle me while I sleep.

The executioner fondled his hatchet and smiled complacently. He felt he was a cut above the rest.