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Updated: May 27, 2025
I pass to the important fact that this class of the poor, though numerically insignificant by comparison with the poor in general, are yet so much in evidence as the objects of Christian zeal, and the church wastes so much time in coddling them, that the self-respecting poor often hold aloof.
The 343 got through with her target practice, and, except for a few gunners' mates still coddling their pet guns, the crew were taking it easy around deck; and also, because of the smooth sea, the ship was making easy weather of it toward port. Seeing a periscope is oftentimes a matter of luck.
Now, just make up your mind, like a sensible girl, to forget your own importance, and don't always be on the lookout for insults to your dignity. Your dignity will look after itself if it's any good, and you'll be a heap happier if you give up coddling and fussing over it all day long. There was that little matter of the pigtail the other morning!
"The children cannot always know what they are missing, but the old can, and my heart aches for them often aches until it really hurts." "My dear girl!" "They are so alike, Con, the babies and the very aged. They need the same things the coddling, the play, the pretty toys to amuse them until they fall asleep." "Lynda, you are all nerves and fancies. Pretty ones but dangerous.
He's taken to quiet boozing, and, Bobby, when the butt of a room goes on the drink, or takes to moping by himself, measures are necessary to pull him out of himself. 'What measures? 'Man can't run round coddling his men for ever. 'No. The men would precious soon show him that he was not wanted. You've got to
Some accident had awakened the suspicion in him that these smooth friends who had been petting and coddling him and making him feel so safe and so fortunate after his forlorn and lonely wanderings were the dreaded Thugs; and now their ghastly invitation to "sit and rest" had confirmed its truth.
Perhaps they complemented each other at this time as a satellite complements a larger luminary for Eugene's egoism required praise, sympathy, feminine coddling; and Angela caught fire from the warmth and geniality of his temperament. On the train next day Eugene had nearly three hours of what he deemed most delightful talk with her.
"Well, so he is," said John; "he plays chess with Armie, and brings him flowers and books, and waits on him as you used to do on a sick doll. And that's just what he is; he ought to have been a woman, and he would have been much happier too, poor fellow. I'd rather be dead at once than drag about such a life of coddling as he does." "Poor lad!" said his father.
There were dark shadows under her eyes and a sad expression about her mouth; one would scarcely have known her again for the brilliant beauty who had carried all before her when she sang in London drawing-rooms not three months earlier. Her father looked at her with sympathetic attention. "You want cockering up," he said, "and coddling and waiting on.
Waldo was a plump, indolent young man of seven-and-twenty, whose mother had early in his life decided for him that he was unusually delicate, and by dint of much coddling and home-keeping had succeeded in making him physically soft and mentally peevish.
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