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Example sentences for "dandled"

Lexicographically close words:
dandiacal; dandies; dandiest; dandified; dandle; dandling; dando; dandruff; dandy; dandyism
  1. Then he turned and showed the dice to Simone, who stared at him in amazed rage, and he spoke very pleasantly and evenly as he dandled the tools of chance.

  2. Doctor Bairam had safely delivered Mrs. Deborah Gossip of this interesting bantling, which was forthwith dandled in dozens of feminine laps.

  3. It came to pass that Mrs. Berry, having certain business that led her through Kensington Gardens, spied a figure that she had once dandled in long clothes, and helped make a man of, if ever woman did.

  4. Nothing would content her but that I must recite my bon mot again when her nephew Percy dandled in to tea that afternoon.

  5. The stirrup was adjusted, one of my German plaits was dandled over my shoulder, and after a leisurely turn or two in the open, I nodded that the highborn Angelique was ready.

  6. The woman dandled her child to and fro, for it moaned painfully, and the pines without made a deep dirge.

  7. Nanking clinched his big fingers around the Indian and dandled him like a baby.

  8. I think not now of the unkind king; I think only of the brave boy I dandled on my knee, and whose sword I girded on at Towton.

  9. I came here in a cutthroat humor enough, but since I dandled her daintiness in my arms I've taken a fine liking for her father.

  10. In the mellow October evening Master Vallance sat at his inn door and dandled troubled thoughts.

  11. He murdered the morning air with odors, his raiment outglowed the rainbow; one hand dandled his staff, the other caressed his mustaches.

  12. Polly sat the further end of the verandah talking to Jinny, who dandled her babe in a rocking-chair that made a light tip-tap as it went to and fro.

  13. He dandled even the youngest, whom he had not seen since its birth, with visible pleasure.

  14. Discard us not, ye blushing divinities who have, with your sex's softness, dandled the heir of Applebite in your imaginations!

  15. I must act, too, as protector and elder brother to Rosamond, on her entrance into the world, an office which I promised to perform, when I dandled her a child in my arms.

  16. Aristide had seen Jean dandled by dozens of women during their brief comradeship; he had thought little of it, as it was the natural thing for women to do; but when this sweet English lady mothered Jean it seemed to matter a great deal.

  17. At last Aristide fed him desperately, dandled him eventually to sleep, and returned to an excited pillow.

  18. They regard their offspring as mere playthings to be dandled upon the knee, brought up like calves in the stall, and then turned out to shape their own destiny.

  19. You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.

  20. Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands?

  21. But Joe only dandled it out of her reach, and then the bell rang.

  22. Serena, who was only a girl herself, dandled the doll impressively before her bewildered eyes.

  23. Joe West then, in an absurdly soft voice, and dandled it up and down.

  24. He was often dandled on the knee of Sir William Johnson, and has a clear recollection of the appearance of the baronet and the circumstances of his death.

  25. O happy I, who dandled thee and gave my flesh and blood to save thee!

  26. Ah, it does an old woman credit to have dandled thee!

  27. The young man in search of an adventure selected the far end of the hall seat and dandled his hat.

  28. This might have gone on indefinitely had not the patient attendant finally dandled his keys and yawned over his watch.

  29. I have dandled you on my knee many and many a time; I know the very house, yes, the very room, in which you were born.

  30. Mr. Sanders was very much at home in the Major's house; he had dandled Vallie on his knee when she was a baby; and he had made the Major's troubles his own as far as he could.

  31. She dandled the baby, would scarcely allow it out of her sight, and evidently doted on it with unbounded tenderness.

  32. The little thing, interrupted in its nap, was frightened and began to scream, refusing to be quieted until her father filled her mouth with the promised delicacy and dandled her in his arms.

  33. Later in life when one is proud as a man or as a lady it is not right that they ever could have dandled and kissed and fixed them, helpless, just a baby.

  34. They are some who like it in their later living that they were then such a very little thing and that was then all there was of them and then others kissed and dandled and fixed them.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dandled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.