Noun : Boston was the cradle of the American Revolution. From Dictionary.com.
The Captain cradled the baby girl throughout the ceremony, surrounded by his favorite male and female concubines. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » Hoist That Rag : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
"cradled" the dying man in his arms after Martin stabbed him. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
He leaned over and cradled it against his stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Blueberries] Reference
She sat next to him and cradled his head in her arms. From Wordnik.com. [Light Eyes] Reference
Dozens lay around the altar; one woman cradled an infant. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Fields] Reference
Ms. Gatlin crossed her arms and cradled them to her chest. From Wordnik.com. [To Be A Child (Part II of III)] Reference
Likesong: a soft brush of your hand over your cradled arm. From Wordnik.com. [Untitled] Reference
His hands cradled my breasts, his thumbs teasing my nipples. From Wordnik.com. [Small Victory: stefan's secret] Reference
He slammed the phone down and cradled his head in his hands. From Wordnik.com. [Moratorium] Reference
George was behind her, a bottle of bourbon cradled in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Ginny's Lunar Bash, Los Alamos, 1974] Reference
Make offspring syllables cradled warm in cribs of punctuation. From Wordnik.com. [Writing Poems] Reference
He slurped the milk: tiny, hungry, sweet, cradled in my left arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Taste in My Mouth] Reference
The truck driver cradled a tire iron, his eyes darted left and right. From Wordnik.com. [Africa Dispatch: Zimbabwe's Diamond 'Monitors'] Reference
The air so still, the sky so mild, like slumbers of the cradled child. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Your big tongue invaded my mouth and I cradled it with my smaller one. From Wordnik.com. [In My Dreams I Steal You From Your Wife.] Reference
After I fainted in a swoon, then came to, Henri cradled me in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [where to land, where to land] Reference
Jud kicked his dufflebag out, cradled the guitar case as he jumped down. From Wordnik.com. [NEXT TOWN COMIN'] Reference
He had cradled dead babies and dead soldiers and dead sisters in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryerer] Reference
Another man cradled his newborn baby in his arms as he stood before the judge. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Castaldi Gets 23 Years For $77M Ponzi Scheme] Reference
His head was cradled against sweet loam and colorful flowers tickled his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Fox in the Garden] Reference
Hungrily, the cradled vessel's great steel nose pointed up to the distant stars. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
We stood transfixed as Jeff cradled his dead guitar, staring at it in disbelief. From Wordnik.com. [My Black Guitar] Reference
Instinctively, he put his hands up to his throat and cradled the front of his neck. From Wordnik.com. [Volume] Reference
The man lying beside me — did I remember his name? — cradled the pillow, snoring. From Wordnik.com. [Pillow] Reference
Laurie cradled her baby girl in the crook of her elbow, Michael leaned in next to her. From Wordnik.com. [A Vast and Sudden Sadness] Reference
Sadly, he sat back down and cradled the guitar like it was the girl he couldn't hold, and sang. From Wordnik.com. [Sing] Reference
Watching the ticker-tape parade, Jason Johnston, 20, cradled his 4-month-old sister in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [Mandela] Reference
Each day, when they let her daughter out, Cathy cradled her in her arms, rocking her and singing. From Wordnik.com. [Shade to Shade] Reference
When he finished, the papercuts inside of her cradled his semen, leaving Mary's ovaries starved. From Wordnik.com. [Dagger] Reference
A glass of gin cradled carefully in one hand, the other carving swathes through the alcoholic fug. From Wordnik.com. [Pigeon Post] Reference
The Colonel replaced the glass with a smile and refilled his own from the cradled bottle at his elbow. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
A British Army foot patrol crosses the square, rifles cradled horizontally, fingers on the trigger guards. From Wordnik.com. ['We'll Never Decommission'] Reference
Juan Romero, a 17-year-old busboy, knelt beside Kennedy, cradled his head in one hand and gave him a crucifix. From Wordnik.com. [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference
Wailing "my sister, my sister, the children," Alejandra cradled her niece, who was foaming at the mouth, and called 911. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's Darkest Day] Reference
Crantock, or St. Carantoc, stands a little way inland from the coast, and the older part is cradled in a sheltering hollow. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The sun had heated the slab of rock, and I felt cradled in a natural sauna when I laid back and gazed up at the cloudless sky. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Edna's Lace] Reference
But Selvy bricked it, the rebound skying straight up where Russell, far above the fray, grabbed it and cradled it for overtime. From Wordnik.com. [NBA Alchemy: Green + Purple = Gold] Reference
But off-screen, a Navy commander still cradled The Black Bag: the nuclear football with the playbooks needed for the Armageddon Bowl. From Wordnik.com. [Fumbling The Football: Now It Can Be Told] Reference
So with one arm she cradled the newborn, with the other she cradled a phone connecting her to the secretary-general of the United Nations. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Is A Hawk] Reference
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