Beautiful sing, For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king!
And the star rains its fire while the Beautiful sing, For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king.
Aye, the star rains its fire, and the beautiful sing, For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King!
The Greeks used cradles for children as we do, and gave them honey as we do sugar, and the nurses represented on the vases are distinguished by a peculiar kerchief on the head, as they often are in our day by a cap or national costume.
The cradles used were made of boards, and were not more than two by three feet in size.
The women carried their babies in the cradles to the baby cabin in the morning, taking them to their own cabins at night.
The play is in contrast to "The Spirit of '76" and the idea carried out is that the men should stay at home and rock the cradles and the women should take the rostrum.
He showed them the Indian cradles in which the squaws carry their pappooses, slung on their backs.
It was more than irritating when, by way of showing that her cradles were insecure, he opened six and devoured the contents himself.
In the fixed Hospitals, Bedsteads or Cradles may be set up for laying the Bedding on: But in the Moveable or Flying Hospital the Bedding must be, for the most part, laid on the Floor.
The cradles were deserted, and the men working on the surface loaded themselves with their tools and made for the high ground, while those at the windlasses worked their hardest to draw up their comrades below.
The principal camp was at the mouth of the Gulch, where the little stream, which scarce afforded water sufficient for the cradles in the dry season, but which was a rushing torrent in winter, joined the Yuba.
When the break-up came men abandoned the shafts and, with rude cradles and sluices, and deep gold pans, set to work on the frozen gravel of the dumps.
He was beginning to regard himself as a "sure enough sourdough" now, and could talk quite wisely of cradles and rockers, of sluices and riffles, and pay dirt and bed rock.
Her advent was followed by the appearance of a steadily increasing group of native citizens, and Dutch cradles multiplied in the cabins of the various settlements from Fort Orange to New Amsterdam.
With the era of permanent settlers in New Netherland, cradles came to be in demand.
If the drawing rooms of the seventeenth century were the cradles of refined manners and a new literature, those of the eighteenth were literally the cradles of a new philosophy.
The inmates of thesecradles are very much smaller than their parent, and are known as the workers, their lives being devoted to labor.
Milly thought she had never imagined any thing so delightfully funny as the little babies winking their bright black eyes, and crying so that the nurses had to rock the cradles to keep them quiet.
They had not yet learned many ways of working, but they long had known how to weave cradles of vines.
He smuggled some food out to her, and she played merrily about him all day; and at night he tucked her into one of the dolls' cradles with lace pillows and quilt of rose-colored silk.
I can sleep in one of those beautiful dolls' cradles over there; and you can bring me something to eat.
We are all tattoed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.
They were fastened so tightly in their queer little cradles that they could not move.
The cradles were made in such a manner that they could be carried on the mother's back, or hung in a tree, or placed on the ground.
Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are.
In one of them cradles the unconscious Farragut of the future is at this moment teething--think of it!
About the middle of the 19th century iron cradles were introduced, along with iron bedsteads.
A number of undoubted historic cradles have been preserved, together with many others with doubtful attributions.
The field was ploughed and bare, but in the barn the new Wheat Babies slept in their snug cradles till they should be placed in the warm moist earth and the time of spring and growth should come again.
One day the wooden cradles split open at the sides, and out peeped the Cherry Children.
As she passed the blossoms changed to fruit, the grown-up things made cradles for the babies of next year.
The winds blew and rocked the little cradles to and fro; from the neighbouring trees the birds sang soft lullabies, and watched and waited.
As you pass from land to land the blossoms of the earth shall change to fruit; the grown-up babies shall make cradles for the babies of next year.
Then she made the cradles bigger as the children grew.
As she flew from land to land the earth clothed itself in green to match the colour of her robe, and all baby-things sprang from their winter cradles and began to grow.
They pecked off the sweet red coverings and ate them, dropping the hard wooden cradles on the ground.
As you pass, each land shall clothe itself in green to match the colour of your robe; as you wave your silver wand, all baby-things shall spring from their winter cradles and begin to grow.
The tiny underground elves gathered them and carried them away to the Earth-mother's warm nurseries, and tucked them into soft cradles till it should be time to return them to the garden for the spring growth.
That cradles of textile construction were used by the mound-builders may be taken for granted.
Lives based on the code of morals which prefers coffins to cradles are lives which fight against God, and as such are doomed to be ground to powder by His judgment.
Her existence will pass in the shadow, in the midst of a restless throng; her sole occupation the indefatigable search for cradles that she must fill.
Step by step she pursues the unfortunate workers who are exhaustedly, feverishly erecting the cradles her fecundity demands.
And now let us return to the city that is being repeopled, where myriad cradles are incessantly opening, and the solid walls even appear to be moving.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cradles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
