Meanings of old cradle in English

A wonderful mite of humanity peacefully slumbered in that old cradle.

Goes all the way back to Sumer, Crete, all those old cradle-of-civilization places.

He was rocking a baby in an old cradle.

We were a large family, and that old cradle was going a good many years.

You going to put me in that old cradle?

Baby stirs and she hushes him, then lays him gently in the old cradle, and goes downstairs.

His little prepubescent trophies gleamed on the shelf, reminding me that I was robbing the old cradle.

I often wonder what has become of our old cradle in which all of us children were rocked!

The old cradle, as I remember it, was made out of plain boards, but it was a Christian cradle.

She hummed to herself an old cradle-song, and in her soft, motherly black eyes shone a mild, happy radiance.

In one far corner was a wide board of dismal use and suggestion, and close beside it an old cradle.

There was a wooden canopy at the head of the old cradle that somehow got loose and was taken off.

Between the mixing-board and the stove stood the old cradle that had been Amedee's, and in it was his black-eyed son.

Dangers, then, which have already assumed a profound importance for the civilized countries of Europe, are threatening from Asia, the old cradle of the nations.

The roof of the old Cradle of Liberty spanned over them all.