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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

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

He is never himself till he has discovered or invented a hero; and, when he has got him, he tosses and dandles him as a mother her babe.

From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine

Then she dandles him in her arms, and packs off the pinched little hope of the family, so far as wishing can do it, to the domains of Licinus, or the palace of Croesus.

From Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century by Napier, James

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