How To Use Dandle In A Sentence
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As he moved away, free of step and straight as an Indian, he filliped away a small budding twig of the saskatoon which one of the youths had brought in to show how the woods were answering the call of the warm sun, and which he had dandled in his fingers as he walked.
The Maid of the Whispering Hills
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Society existed to dandle them and indulge their fantasies.
Adam Hanft: Anniversary Irony: How the Woodstock Generation is Sabotaging Health Care Reform
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(Mother pandas constantly dandle their infants for the same reason.)
Among the Pandas
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A warrior who had dandled strong men in his arms like infants will never suffer himself to be dandled in the arms of others.
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Others, younger, remembered only the responsible practical man Latimar had become -- this man had dandled their children from his knees, danced at harvest hor - keys, always been there with a sympathetic ear to the trials of country living.
Dearly Beloved
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For surely women could not voluntarily allow themselves to be shut in like this, like Nora, for example, become dependent and be dandled like children all their lives?
Chitambo - 4
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So what if Sweeney buys drinks for Rachel Rabinowitz or Aunt Helen's footman dandles the second parlormaid?
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Neepoosa, who dandled thee in her arms when thou wast a child.
CHAPTER 2
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But he still has time to smile at his wife, and dandle his daughter on his lap.
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And as I recline next to Lillian Hellman, I dandle Miss Kathie's adopted baby on my knee.
Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
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I have written in the past about Nick's great great aunt Moura Budberg, and once observed in House Points that she had lived long enough (until 1974) to have dandled him on her knee.
Nick Clegg did meet Moura Budberg
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Kuzovkin, embroiled for decades in a hopeless suit for possession of another estate, is overjoyed by the reunion with Olga, whom he, years ago, dandled and indulged with quasi-parental affection.
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the grandfather dandled the small child
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Moura died in 1974, late enough to have dandled the infant Nick on her knee.
Archive 2008-03-01
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He liked to dandle with the Nationalists, but he wanted none of their risks.
TESTIMONIES
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Rather, my first thought is of the scene in which Tom (wonderfully and perfectly portrayed by Nick Nolte) dandles a priceless violin out the window.
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Serena, who was only a girl herself, dandled the doll impressively before her bewildered eyes.
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Sherlock, I used to dandle you on my knee when you were a boy; you and your beloved cloth giraffe!
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I told her, ‘I dandled you on my knee when you were just a titchy little caterpillar.’
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He rumpled the boy's straight dark hair as he dandled him on his knee.
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He longs for grandchildren to dandle on his knee through his dotage.
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He liked to dandle with the Nationalists, but he wanted none of their risks.
TESTIMONIES
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Did not Mr. Binny, the mild and genteel curate of the district chapel, which the family attended, call assiduously upon the widow, dandle the little boy on his knee, and offer to teach him Latin, to the anger of the elderly virgin, his sister, who kept house for him?
Vanity Fair
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She dandled the fruit playfully, kissed it several times, and pretended to juggle it, while laughing with a delicious babbling brook of a laugh.
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In front of the crackling fire, Alobar dandled his babies on his knees and at last gave full attention to his lot.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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Wilshere is a delicate thing, to be dandled and stroked and made much of, perhaps even quartered in a very small secure dark room, some kind of sealed basement annexe.
Why we must savour the rare English delicacy that is Jack Wilshere
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There was much happiness—Arthur now had a plump baby daughter, Mary, to dandle on his knee—and, thanks to Sherlock Holmes, the wherewithal to do a “proper” Christmas, with all the trimmings.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
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Wolfgang Wagner, who disinherited his brother's children and his own son to leave Bayreuth in the hands of two rival daughters, Eva and Katharina, was the last grandchild to be dandled on Cosima's meddlesome knee.
Keeper Of the Shrine
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Town halls are one thing, but you can keep your catch-and-release handshake, your dandled baby, your pale-brew kaffeeklatsch.