Then the sight of the pretty patchwork recalled the memory of the cradle it was meant to cover, and reminded her that it was empty now.
They select a common grub or larva, and enlarge the cell it occupies, by sacrificing the three contiguous ones, surrounding it with a cylindrical enclosure; the new cradle of royalty presenting in this stage the appearance of an acorn cup.
Soon after the foundation of one of them has been laid, an egg is deposited in it, the work of completion of the cradle being carried on as required by the increasing growth of its occupant.
Rock me O sleep, wean'd from my dear friends company, In a cradle free from dreams or thoughts, there 5 Where poor men ly, for Kings asleep do fear.
Four of these marked critical stages in human life, from the cradle to the grave.
Their cradle land seems to have been in western Russia, whence they slowly spread to the Baltic, the Elbe, and the Danube.
The other woman passes the child back using the same phrase, and it is then placed in the cradle and rocked, and boiled wheat and gram are distributed to the party.
One need not reason on the intensity of sentiment thus implanted in the infant Rajput, of whom we may say without metaphor the shield is his cradle and daggers his playthings, and with whom the first commandment is 'Avenge thy father's feud.
When a child is to be named it is placed in a cradle and parties of women sit on opposite sides of it.
She placed him in a cradle supported on four uprights, and when the Bamra Raja's soldiers came to seek for him the Sudhs swore, "If we have kept him either in heaven or earth may our god destroy us.
One of the women takes the child in her arms and passes it across the cradle to another saying, 'Take the child named Ramchandra' or whatever it may be.
Sleeping thus under the beneficent eye of heaven, can evil visit thee, O Earth, or grief cradleto their graves thy luckless children?
The time when in proud and happy security we assembled at this cottage, was gone--soon the present hours would join those past, and shadows of future ones rose dark and menacing from the womb of time, their cradle and their bier.
Jack said nothing, for he thought he would see what Mopsa was going to do; so when she got up and went towards the shape that was like a cradle he followed, and the apple-woman too.
The kind stone-people asked them to come and sit by their little fire; and in the dusk the woman whose baby had slept in a stonecradle took it up and began to sing to it.
Fain would I thy small limbs fold, While the weary hours are told, Little babe in cradle cold.
It proves to be Sergeant Anderson's baby whose cradle has started afloat, and there is a general rush to rescue Moses from his bulrushes.
God has intended this to be the cradle of a new race, a race born of the diverse entities now fusing in its crucible.
But it has been asked in debate, 'Will not Massachusetts, the Cradle of Liberty, submit to such privations?
The songs to whose lullaby the cradle of a great nation is rocked are a precious possession to the historian.
Next morning, however, there was found on the leads of All Hallows Barking a young child in a cradle as newly laid in bed, neither child nor cradle having sustained the least harm.
Holding on with one hand, and steadying the cradle with the other, though the surf as it rose washed over him more than once, he reached the boat with his charges.
While Mary was yet in hercradle a marriage was spoken of for her with Francis I.
His favorite companion was Thomas Erskine, his foster-brother, who happened to be born on the same day as the young king, whose cradle and sports he shared.
Then into a cradle he is not laid, but strapped, wound round and round until his little legs and arms are rigid and immovable, and the soft bones of the back of his head are flattened as he lies there day after day.
By means of this line a hawser could be drawn from the shore to the ship, and along it would be run a cradle in which the shipwrecked persons could be drawn to land.
If the cradle is moved while the child is not in it, the child becomes peevish.
Like a thoughtful mother the Church cherishes and cares for man, and surrounds him from the cradle to the grave with its safeguards of magic.
The children needed for the witches' kettles and the sabbath banquets are obtained as follows: The victims are killed by looks or by the above-mentioned powder, when they lie in theircradle or in bed with their mothers.
If the floor under a cradle is swept, the child will be bereft of its sleep.
Elsewhere he speaks of Tweed shrining the music of his cradle song, and the requiem he would most prefer--may that day be long in coming!
That instinct which struck at His cradle is now reawakened, and will not slumber again until the fatal day when the new Herod shall set Him at nought and mock Him.
But not without emotion did Jesus bid farewell to Galilee, to the home of His childhood and sequestered youth, the cradle of His Church, the centre of nearly all the love and faith He had awakened.
Repulsed a second time from the cradle of His youth, even as lately from Decapolis, with what a heavy heart must the Loving One have turned away.
From his deep cradle the woods among His russet robes waving free, The Oran with his kindly tongue, Is travelling to the sea.
And Captain Jonathan thought of that, and he thought that it wouldn't do any harm to lower thecradle and see if the Industry wouldn't happen to fit into it.
So Captain Jonathan and two other men, who belonged at that railway, lowered the cradle as much as they thought would be right, and the Industry drifted in and she did happen to catch on the cradle.
They had there a sort of cradle, that runs down into the water on rails; and a ship fits into the cradle and is drawn up out of the water to be mended.
Have you ever seen his cradle swaying from an elm branch?
Should all the princesses die, one of the common bees is put into the royal cradle and fed upon the dainty food, and she often makes quite as good a queen as if she were born in the purple.
We descended now into a kind of cradle valley, yellow with rich vineyards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cradle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
