Meanings of rock the cradle in English

His duty would be to rock the cradle of the late Mr.

The baby stirred in her sleep, and the chief began gently to rock the cradle.

The one toward whom the end curls up will be first to rock the cradle.

Mother, rock the cradle of your pretty child.

And whenever the child wept, it would rock the cradle with its trunk, and lull it to sleep.

The old women would tend to this baby and we would sit and rock the cradle till mother would come.

The little girl nodded seriously, sat down on a nearby chair, and began to gently rock the cradle with her foot.

The child is a Barbille-Don'trock the cradle so fast, he suddenly added with an irritable gesture, breaking off from his argument.

If baby cries, rock the cradle, but don't try to take him out; if he sleeps you may wash the potatoes for dinner.

They make me sleep in the vestibule, and when their brat cries, I don't sleep at all, but have to rock the cradle.

One little girl after another would go proudly to the "mother's chair" and rock the cradle, while the other children hummed their gentle lullabies.

When I got old enough, I used to help rock the cradles.

You'll find him rocking the cradle of Tippoo Wellington, my youngest son!

The old mother sat silent, bowed, lost in thought; Fyokla rocked the cradle.

The hand that rocks the cradle rocks the world, in a volcanic sense.

Norah stopped rocking the cradle and stared at the closed door.