Hushing signs she made, And breath'd a sister's sorrow to persuade 410 A yielding up, a cradlingon her care.
At last they interwove Their cradling arms, and purpos'd to convey Towards a crystal bower far away.
Lana looked at us both, unsmiling; then drew her hands from mine and crook'd her arms behind her neck, cradling her head on them, looking at us both all the while.
TO CLOSE RANKS Shann made his way at an angle to avoid the smoking pit cradling the wreckage of the Terran ship.
Cradling the blaster, the Terran continued to wait.
Not a bee shall hear him creeping, 5 Not a may-fly shall awaken From its cradling blue-bell shaken, Not the starlight as he's sliding Through the grass with silent gliding.
You immortal revellers, cradling yourselves on blissful heights in exquisite pastimes, you despise the black elf!
I put in bursts of speed, then rested on my back upon the cradling waves, watching the streaks of feathery clouds that stretched across the sky--streamers, flying far behind the tempest.
He sank down among the underbrush and gathered her to his breast, cradling her, cherishing her to him as though to bring back life and consciousness.
A quarter-hour more the Pauillac swooped along, cradling in her swift flight to westward.
Evidently Mr. Ford had not forgotten his cradling days on the home farm in Michigan.
Our procession stopped, and the irrepressible Ford and Firestone were soon taking turns at cradling oats, but with doubtful success.
Upon Alleghany Mountain, near Barton, West Virginia, a farmer was cradling oats on a side-hill below the road.
Cradling grain (the method then in vogue of cutting it before mechanical reapers were introduced) was at first one of the most difficult things he ever tried to do.
Ellis could only laugh, cradling his knees in his clasped and sun-tanned hands.
She had dropped her eyes, sitting there very silent at the foot of the tree, cradling the big straw hat in her lap.
What is this sudden quiet cradling me To that dim ditty's dreamy rise and fall?
One day ‘the curse struck him behind, coming from an excellent salmon, juicy and sweet, which one would never have suspected of perfidy as it lay cradling itself in a rosy shimmer in its rich herb sauce.
When his own wheat was harvested it was his custom to "hire out" to do cradling for the neighbours.
A farmer whose memory goes back to the days of cradling tells a story on himself that is worth repeating because of the light it casts on the women who helped to build up Canada.
Before the day of the self-rake machine the grain was harvested with the cradle, and cradling was work for a giant.
How far the abortive attempt of establishing the colony of Zwanendael, mentioned in the narrative, and the voyage bringing over the colonists may be called “the cradling of a state,” I leave others to decide.
The voyage of De Vries was the cradling of a state.
Most of the daytime he spent cradling at the spring.
However, by "puddling" I managed to make a small dam which would at night collect enough water to admit of a limited amount of panning or cradling by day.
And he laid the papers aside, cradling his chin in the palm of one hand and staring for a weary while out of the car window at a reeling and moonsmitten landscape.
And, nodding, sat down at the desk, planting elbows on its polished surface, interlacing her fingers and cradling her chin upon their backs: turned suddenly pensive.
Mr. Maitland returned the glass to O'Hagan and, cradling his head in his hands, racked his brains in vain for a satisfactory tale to tell.
He looked at the trim little schooner cradlingher sleeping crew.
She hummed, cradling in her heart impressions of the night so that later she might awaken them through the music of her violin.
They may often be seen cradling with an infant in their arms.
The cradling machine, though simple in itself, is rather difficult to describe.
For that, of surface earth we washed Of dray loads half a score; I'll swear thatcradling never seemed Such tedious work before.
The puddling and cradling work had, I fancy, given the finishing stroke to his disgust.
No mother prays in vain to Me on this day of the year, For when the faltering words she speaks fall on My waiting ear, I do remember that My cheek Lay on a bosom warm, I do remember Bethlehem, And Mary's cradling arm.
Think of her cradling arms, her love-song low, And pity me when Thou dost think of them.
Olivia's legs were trembling so that she could not walk; so he carried her, and her heart calmed its frantic pounding as she nestled into his cradling arms.
Her arms about his iron neck, the Ophirean closed her eyes, cradling her dark curly head against his massive shoulder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cradling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
