After a hard day of playing, the puppies would nestle in with their mother and go to sleep. From LearnThat.org.
I like that some of the words the mothers instruct their babies to do are new actions for my kids, such as nestle, nibble, paddle, munch and cruise. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
And the mice play shyly round me as I nestle down to rest. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
While nestle there inhabitants, a feather'd tuneful choir. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Scattered dwellings nestle in the thick woods, but no regular. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
The world will nestle in regaling plenty and great assurance. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
Glanleam, or nestle among the houses of the telegraphic company. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
The goose made no reply; he was perfectly content to nestle down in. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories] Reference
Cats like to nestle on a warm engine, says animal activist Franny Syufy. From Wordnik.com. [Pets: At Home Fur Good] Reference
Come! let me nestle in well and snore too, if it be possible ... oh! misery. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Intel Envy: None of this means you should sell your stocks and nestle into bank accounts. From Wordnik.com. [Sure Profits, No Tears?] Reference
The baby sweaters she knitted for me nestle in wrapping tissue in a suitcase with other mementos. From Wordnik.com. [Deborah Jiang Stein: Synchronicity On the Rise] Reference
Miss Du Prel seemed to nestle up to the good woman, as a child to its mother after some scaring adventure. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
See how the little chicks nestle and play about their mother! and see what a watchful eye she has over them!. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1] Reference
She resisted faintly at first, but presently I heard her give a sigh of content, and felt her nestle towards me. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
We appeared, as compared with the gigantic mass and long duration of these monuments, as the swallows which nestle. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
Lab tests have shown that the small molecules we identified nestle in that crevice and keep SOD from falling apart. From Wordnik.com. [A FIX FOR FAULTY PROTEINS] Reference
The low thatched houses, with rough-cast, whitewashed walls, nestle close to each other for shelter from the winds. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
In front lies the lofty eminence of Clare Island, below which appears to nestle the picturesque castle of Rossturk. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
They nestle together, curve within curve, kneecap to back of knee, buttock against belly, hand cupping breast. From Wordnik.com. [A Marriage of Bodies] Reference
The comfortable farmsteads nestle amid their embowering peach and apple orchards, the very types of peace and plenty. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
The tiny port of Kosseir is just a nook where the boats can nestle behind a small, low, natural breakwater of the basalt. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Occasionally a cat on a hunting foray comes into the barn to look for mice, or to nestle cosily down into purring slumber. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
We approach and watch the enormous rock seeming to grow taller and taller as we nestle beneath it in the beautiful harbor. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
He sat on the cat's head, and on the dog's back, and suffered the mice to nestle under his wings, and never made them afraid. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Where villages nestle at the base of a slope, as they do throughout the Alps, even an intentional avalanche can be destructive. From Wordnik.com. [Taming The White Dragon] Reference
Let the kitten, dog, pig or chicken give the sign of pain or distress and the mother will hasten to its offspring and nestle it. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
She revises baked alaska so that under the meringue, where cake and ice cream used to nestle, guests find papaya and raspberries. From Wordnik.com. [Feasts For Cooks And Readers] Reference
He had taken her into their shelter very often, but now he wanted her to come to him and nestle against his heart of her own will. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
Also, there's a question of whether older people want to interact with fewer or more people as they nestle into their family and work lives. From Wordnik.com. [Facebook Grows Up] Reference
Liebenstein rise sheer out of the plain, nestle charming villages, and long avenues of poplars conduct you where you would go along the high roads. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
It comes before takeoff, as you nestle into your seat, sip your champagne and pretend not to notice the lumbering hordes of unfortunates squeezing by. From Wordnik.com. [THE RICH DON'T TRAVEL LIKE THE REST OF US] Reference
Hang them from your closet rod or nestle them in your lingerie chest, and your clothes are guaranteed to smell and feel unbelievably fresh and floral. From Wordnik.com. [Felicia C. Sullivan: Hello, Home: Housewarming Gifts Worth the Splurge!] Reference
Laurel had insisted upon her father reclining in the hammock, and she was now fussing with his pillows, that he might nestle deeper in their softness. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
If a soft exterior is desired, select a cake pan or cast-iron skillet where the biscuits will nestle together snugly, creating the soft exterior while baking. From Wordnik.com. [A biscuit worth its weight in goat butter] Reference
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