Example Sentences

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She is not a sentimentalist or a cradler of her pain.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2020

I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay; so with the German women.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

A good cradler in the harvest field will earn from $1,50 to $2 per day.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason

He is sober and obliging, a fair carpenter, wood cutter, cradler, gardener and coachman.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

He was a good ploughman, a good mower and cradler, excellent with a team of oxen drawing rocks, and good at most general farm work, but not an adept at constructing anything.

From My Boyhood by Burroughs, John