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A pile of something white, and, behold, a wedding veil! There isn't a hook in the closet that doesn't say, 'Standing-room only, and the standing-room is all stood on by a regiment of new shoes." "My dear woman, go light on our sore spots. We are only just out of the woods." "Isn't it bad to coddle your sore spots, Doctor? Like a saddle-gall, ride them down!" Mrs. Creve and Dr.
Then, of course, I told her all about my dull days, and she pitied me, and said lightly it must not be, and I must see more of the world, and she, for her part, must know me better, etc., etc. And then she went away. In a few days, I went with Ann Coddle, in a carriage, to return the visit.
If I were!... But no, no! my sentence, you see, is expressly to avoid all mountain-climbing with whatever else is pleasant to play the invalid, to rest, breathe deep, sleep and coddle. And for excitement it is my revered mother's own suggestion why, write a book if I like my impressions of the New South, or any other reason why! Write a book!
Lord de Courval singular coincidence! descent from the old line. Herald's College soon settle all that. Lord de Courval! nothing can sound better. There must be a village or hamlet still called Courval about the property." "I am afraid not. There is Coddle End!" "Coddle End! Coddle End! the very thing, sir the very thing clear corruption from Courval! Lord de Courval of Courval! Superb! Ha! ha!"
PIPPIN PUDDING. Coddle six pippins in vine leaves covered with water, very gently, that the inside may be done without breaking the skins. When soft, take off the skin, and with a tea-spoon take the pulp from the core. Press it through a cullender, add two spoonfuls of orange-flower water, three eggs beaten, a glass of raisin wine, a pint of scalding cream, sugar and nutmeg to taste.
And then they told him stories of people who had all been cured by other remedies than his. Then by way of consolation they added: "You give way too much! Get up! You coddle yourself like a king! All the same, old chap, you don't smell nice!" Gangrene, in fact, was spreading more and more. Bovary himself turned sick at it. He came every hour, every moment.
If I had no garden, I would make a shed on the roof, and take it there for fresh air. I should feed it, and wash it much, and with warm water to please it, not with cold water to give it pain. BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, does not heat relax? JOHNSON. 'Sir, you are not to imagine the water is to be very hot. I would not CODDLE the child. No, Sir, the hardy method of treating children does no good.
I have no time to coddle myself. It would be a pretty thing to fall ill just as the Rennepont affair can only succeed by my exertions! Let us return to business. I told you, Father d'Aigrigny, that you might serve us a good deal; and you also, princess, who have espoused this cause as if it were your own " Rodin again paused.
It is unnecessary to describe them, for our readers may rest assured of the accuracy of these general principles:—that all couples who coddle themselves are selfish and slothful,—that they charge upon every wind that blows, every rain that falls, and every vapour that hangs in the air, the evils which arise from their own imprudence or the gloom which is engendered in their own tempers,—and that all men and women, in couples or otherwise, who fall into exclusive habits of self-indulgence, and forget their natural sympathy and close connexion with everybody and everything in the world around them, not only neglect the first duty of life, but, by a happy retributive justice, deprive themselves of its truest and best enjoyment.
Besides, the man, not he of the street who steals because he is hungry, but the one who has every advantage of education and environment to make his way right in life, goes wrong knowingly. Are we in this case to coddle, to sympathize, to let ourselves be led into philanthropic drivel over 'judge not that ye be not judged'? I cannot see it so."
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