Sentence:  Round and round the hilltop he led them, now hopelessly out of their reach, now letting them almost catch his tail, now diving between them, now tossing them in the air with his huge and beautifully <WSD>velveted</WSD> paws and catching them again, and now stopping unexpectedly so that all three of them rolled over together in a happy laughing heap of fur and arms and legs. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Having a velvet-like surface; covered with a velvet-like material.