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One of the Hindoo fables represents the god Bramah as first appearing in the form of a child, cradled on a Lotos leaf, and floating on the waste of waters.

The five outer petals are large and hooded, and in each is cradled a bundle of four or more stamens.

that smeared his shirt when he cradled the dying leader in his arms.

A relief to turn from these pictures, which seem to prefigure our own sexually anxious age, to such comical dreams of resurrection as Spencer's exuberant The Dustman (1934), in which the Cookham garbage man has returned from the dead and is cradled like a baby in his wife's arms, while neighborhood children offer gifts of empty cans and other trash.

One admiral declares that he was literally thus cradled, under the breast of a gun-carriage.

I cradled the telephone between shoulder and ear, poured, and-took a sip of coffee.

It is said that she was buried with her infant at her feet, but when their bodies were exhumed, the child was found cradled in her arms.

Do I not know that she is tender? soft As dreams of cradled infancy, or note Of Philomel-whose music in the ear Of the benighted traveller, makes beams Of roseate morn unwelcome to his eye.

I remember a stanza in an old Scottish ballad, which, notwithstanding its rude simplicity, speaks feelingly to the heart:-- Little did my mother think, That day she cradled me, What land I was to travel in, Or what death I should dee! Who would have foretold our future lot? "Oh, little did my mither ken The day she cradled me The land I was to travel in, Or the death I was to die."[273] _March_ 13.--Wrought at a review of Fraser Tytler's _History of Scotland_.

Think what it is to strangle infant pity, Cradled in the belief of guileless looks, Till it become a crime to suffer.

ASIA: From all the blasts of heaven thou hast descended: Yes, like a spirit, like a thought, which makes Unwonted tears throng to the horny eyes, And beatings haunt the desolated heart, Which should have learnt repose: thou hast descended _5 Cradled in tempests; thou dost wake, O Spring! SEMICHORUS 2: Oh, below the deep. _60 SEMICHORUS 1: An hundred ages we had been kept Cradled in visions of hate and care, And each one who waked as his brother slept, Found the truth- SEMICHORUS 2: Worse than his visions were! Sleep who will, cradled in hope and short vision, like Lafayette, 'who always in the danger done sees the last danger that will threaten him,'-Time is not sleeping, nor Time's seedfield.

I confess, Sir, I confess that I still retain the tastes of my boyhood; the Muses cradled my childhood, they now smooth the pillow of my footstool-Quem tu, Melpomene, are not yet subject to gout, dira podagra: By the way, how is the worthy Doctor since his attack?-Ah, see now, if you have not still, by your delightful converse, kept me from his letter-yet, positively I need no introduction to you, Apollo has already presented you to me.

The sullen oligarchy of the Normans; our own criminal invasions of Scotland and France; the plundered people, the butchered kings; the persecutions of the Lollards; the wars of Lancaster and York; the new dynasty of the Tudors, that at once put back Liberty, and put forward Civilization! the Reformation, cradled in the lap of a hideous despot, and nursed by violence and rapine; the stakes and fires of Mary, and the craftier cruelties of Elizabeth,-England, strengthened by the desolation of Ireland, the Civil Wars, the reign of hypocrisy, followed by the reign of naked vice; the nation that beheaded the graceful Charles gaping idly on the scaffold of the lofty Sidney; the vain Revolution of 1688, which, if a jubilee in England, was a massacre in Ireland; the bootless glories of Marlborough; the organized corruption of Walpole, the frantic war with our own American sons, the exhausting struggles with Napoleon! "Well, we close the page; we say, Lo! a thousand years of incessant struggles and afflictions! millions have perished, but Art has survived; our boors wear stockings, our women drink tea, our poets read Shakspeare, and our astronomers improve on Newton! You, cradled by misfortune,-your childhood reared amidst scenes of fear and vice, which, while they seared back the intellect, had no pollution for the soul,-your very parent your tempter and your foe; you, only not a miracle and an angel by the stain of one soft and unconscious error,-you, alike through the equal trials of poverty and wealth, have been destined to rise above all triumphant; the example of the sublime moral that teaches us with what mysterious beauty and immortal holiness the Creator has endowed our human nature when hallowed by our human affections! Only first 17 results shown.
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