She certainly coddled her husband less than the others; and, indeed, in her heart of hearts disapproved altogether of the coddling system.
For them the trade of the world, the opening of mines, the building of factories, the use of every natural power, the coddling of every artificial power.
He did not win by playing to the gallery, asking if they were quite comfortable in their room, and giving them little coddling presents.
Murdstone rigour nor sentimental coddling was regarded as an essential.
It is a valuable as well as ornamental little tree, and is worthy of a great amount of coddling and coaxing to get it established.
Of all ills, in or out of prison, with which our people are afflicted, that of false clemency with coddling is the most pronounced and far-reaching.
Directly coddling or humanity, so-called, comes in, the whole thing is turned into a farce.
The whole trouble with the world today, as a sane man views it, is that there has been altogether too much coddling of the physically and mentally unfit.
If coddlingis done, however, they like to pick their coddlers.
But Coddling was there in time to drop on the ball, though hardly had he done so than Shadduck landed on his back, together with various others belonging to both teams.
If they feel like fussing and coddling they will, but if they're tired or cross or in a hurry to get to sleep, well, they just let their hair take care of itself.
And in a little garden a good deal of coddlingmay be done.
We'll have to see to it that they get a lot of coddling so's to keep them cheered up, won't we?
More and more she was forming all her plans to fit the future of a boy, and one of her chief reasons for not relying upon the good will of the family was her desire to spare this son prenatal coddling by coddling herself.
Seems to me there's too much coddling going on at those places, and mighty few people get well on coddling.
As an anti-coddling resource for the restoration of our pristine powers," said the Idiot.
You might just as well advise nursing and coddling a nest of brown-tail moths--and we are spending good money to kill off moths.
He has not been out for a week, and the coddling and linseeding have given a healthy bloom to his bay coat, and he has taken a cordial ball with a little catechu, and ten grains of opium, to aid his exertions.
On the other hand, Daddy David, there has been too much coddling in this country, lately, by the cowardice of men who ought to know better and the coddling has continued to the hurt of all of us!
That's just about what another party was telling me not long ago--that I was coddling the Indians and trying to fasten suspicion where it didn't rightfully belong.
We are taught, as children, that he loves us as our mothers do; and as from them we look for coddling when we cry for it, so are our expectations about God.
What wonder that in a world where all that is valuable has been "Battered with the shocks of doom To shape and use," the God of coddling love seems utterly impossible!
The love of Jesus was no coddling affection; it had for its center a moral purpose that balked at no sacrifice.
Indeed, faith in a God of coddling love may be one of the most pernicious influences in human life.
III For three years Bonfire had been in leather and he had found the life far different from the dull routine ofcoddling that he had known at the Lochlynne Farm.
It was a varied existence, filled with toil and hardship and abuse; an existence for which the coddling one gets at Lochlynne Farm is no fit preparation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coddling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gratification; indulgence; pleasing
