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The stately U.S. elm, which inspires the weekend artist and dandles the infant oriole, is in worse danger than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

He dandles the child of the forest on his shoulder instead of his children by you in the house.

From Bride of the Mistletoe by Allen, James Lane

"I tell him to forget his name, and he forgets his name; I tell him that he has a baby on his lap, and he sees and feels and dandles it."

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Molière is kind to his bourgeois, envelops him softly in satire as in cotton-wool, dandles him like a great baby; and Coquelin is without bitterness, stoops to make stupidity heroic, a distinguished stupidity.

From Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory by Symons, Arthur

That mother, whose spirit in fetters is bound, While she dandles the babe in her arms to the sound.

From Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 by Ball, Thomas Hanly