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I have watched them prop it up with sticks, and gently wash the earth away from its delicate petals, and have said to myself, "Ah, little one, the fairy Love is nestling in your heart."

From Violet: A Fairy Story by Guild, Caroline Snowden

Yet her expression is so gentle that others say she is nestling close to him for protection.

From Michelangelo A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Master, With Introduction And Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

She believed that the wolf must not be very close to the door behind which love is nestling.'

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

And a charming little settlement, a beautiful sugar-plantation, is nestling there between them, on the very edge of the bay.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio

A moment, and her fresh warm cheek is close to the pale face of her mother; while her hand is nestling in her bosom.

From Finger Posts on the Way of Life by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)