The Dance of Life begins, with all its charms In the fonddandling of the nurse's arms.
Loubet himself, dandling his bottles affectionately in his arms, did what he could to pour oil upon the troubled waters.
When Nicholas and his wife came to look for Pierre he was in the nursery holding his baby son, who was again awake, on his huge right palm and dandling him.
In any case, only those could believe this who mistake the grotesque for the genial, and the formless for the sublime--is not that so, you dandling favourite of the Graces?
Walter was in the room with him, dressed for church, and dandling his child.
Walter came from the nursery, where he had been dandlinghis child, and his appearance was not of the most prepossessing kind.
Dandling it as best he can] There, there--poor, poor!
The sea at length became troubled, when immediately king Saleh arose, with the young prince in his arms, and dancing and dandling him about, re-entered at the same window he went out at.
You married people, that have the help of a Wet-Nurse, receive a much greater advantage in participating of the Pleasures of Marriage, neither need you to be troubled with tossing & dandling of the child in the night.
This is the feeling of bodily insecurity which appears very early when the child is awkwardly carried, or when in dandling it, it is let down back-foremost.
And it has been noticed by more than one observer that on dandling a baby up and down in one's arms, it will on descending, that is when the support of the arms is being withdrawn, show signs of discontent in struggling movements.
It consisted in holding the child in her arms with its mouth up, and dandling him up and down gently, and singing in rhythmic motion a certain melody.
It had at any rate been thus put before him that the dandling and dancing of his image occasionally gave way to perfect immobility, when he stopped and kept his eyes on it.
Hey, you are my little sweetheart," cries Anton to the little two-year-old girl he is dandlingin his arms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dandling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
