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Definition of Cradled
1. cradle [v] - See also: cradle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cradled
Literary usage of Cradled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... deep music is in unison : Which is a soul within the »oui—they pain, cradled,
and hung in clear tranquility ; Bright as that wandering Eden Lucifer. ..."
2. The Life of Benjamin Franklin: With Many Choice Anecdotes and Admirable by Mason Locke Weems (1835)
"They seize them by their hissing heads as they dart forth from the dark chambers
of the thunders; and cradled infants, half waked by the sudden glare, ..."
3. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine (1856)
"•x- * •* cradled calm by waves of ocean, And by wondrous dreaming, musing Still
I lie within the cabin, In my gloomy corner hammock. ..."
4. Eight Years in Canada: Embracing a Review of the Administrations of Lords by Richardson (John), Major Richardson, John Richardson, Richardson, John, 1796-1852 (1847)
"Nor has the beauty of this scenery, amid which were cradled the infant years of
Brandt, immortalized by Campbell in his Gertrude of Wyoming, ..."
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