Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The size of the nestler is comic, and its tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother, who is a sort of high reposing Providence toward it.

From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.

Mother! look at the darling nestler upon your own bosom, and ask yourself how you would have felt in Christine's place.

From Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) by Griffiths, Julia