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Definition of Dandles
1. dandle [v] - See also: dandle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dandles
Literary usage of Dandles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review edited by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen (1890)
"The male monster plays on a violin, whilst the female (who is crowned) dandles
her fish-tailed offspring in her arms. In England there are many ..."
2. Some Fair Hibernians, Being a Supplementary Volume to "Some Celebrated Irish by Frances A. Gerard (1897)
"When she was only eleven years old her first poem appeared in print; this was
the dandles Rout.1 The history of how she came to write it is interesting as ..."
3. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1813)
"... it is a sort of childishness, if I may so say, of the understanding, wherein,
during the fit, it plays with, and dandles some insignificant puppet to no ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... self to make his lord merry, another dandles my young master, bestows a little
nag on him, a third marries a cracked piece, &c. ..."
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