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Meanings of little cradle in English

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Usage of little cradle in English
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There stood the little cradle where he had lain, but the cradle was empty.
Second Book of Tales
2
She picked up a little cradle her sister had given her for a joke.
The new yorker
3
A daintier, warmer, safer, little cradle no bird could desire.
Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual / Issued for the ...
4
But to return to the little cradle of empire at the foot of Cape Diamond.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
5
He had hurried the little cradle out of sight.
Australia Felix
6
I found that the tubs, being slung high, made quite a little cradle between them.
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of Stories
7
Smith putting back the telephone on its little cradle.
A singular man
8
Orde said nothing, but walked around the bed to where the baby lay in his little cradle.
The Riverman
9
The tall rushes growing there held the little cradle, that the water might not wash it away.
A Child's Story Garden
10
Then she rolled herself away within it, and then, in her queer little cradle, went to sleep.
Buttercup Gold, and Other Stories
11
Norea saw the little cradle.
Dagmar's daughter
12
And in those bulrushes she saw this little baby in a kind of a little cradle, a little boat.
True compass: a memoir
13
Nothing remained to Maarda but an empty little cradle basket, but smoothly-folded silken "blankets," but disused beaded bands.
The Moccasin Maker
14
And she lifted the little cradle, with Thumbelina in it, and hopped out through the broken window-pane, down into the garden.
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories / The Young Folks Treasu...
15
The baby, sung to her sweet slumbers pressed against her mother's heart, had been lain down at last in her little cradle.
Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish.
16
But she fixed a little cradle for Him in the feed-box, and wrapped Him in long clothes, as I do you, my darling.
The Potato Child & Others
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