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Updated: May 11, 2025
I wanted to cosset myself up, and get a good sweating between thick blankets to drive some of the fever out of me; and, niggers or no niggers, I meant to do so that day. Then I thought of a dodge I mean the broken-glass trick. "In the hold were half a dozen barrels of empty gin, beer, and whisky bottles.
Polly sent her over there on an errand and she had felt unusually aggrieved because she had had to wind quills, or hetchel, instead of going berrying, or some like pleasant amusement. "Poor little cosset," grandma would say, pityingly.
"They all look alike to me," said Miss Laura. "I dare say. You are not accustomed to them. Do you know how to tell a sheep's age?" "No, uncle." "Here, open your mouth, Cosset," he said to the lamb that he still held. "At one year they have two teeth in the centre of the jaw. They get two teeth more every year up to five years.
But the value of the Essay is not so much in any light it throws on the mystery of volition, as on the striking and brilliant way in which the limitations of the individual and the inexplicable rule of law are illustrated. "Nature is no sentimentalist, does not cosset or pamper us.
'Then, Sir, said Malcolm, much hurt that the King did not take his part, 'I shall carry my service elsewhere. 'So, said James, much vexed, 'this is the meek lad that wanted to hide in a convent from an ill world, flying off from his king and kinsman that he may break down honest men's doors at his will. 'That I may be free from insult, Sir. 'You think John of Buchan like to cosset you!
An ancient raven cocked his eye wisely at the visitors, a tame hare hopped about the floor, a cat with three kittens, all as black as soot, occupied a basket, and there were also a fox cub rescued from a trap, a cosset lamb and a tiny hedgehog. Birds nested in the thatch; a squirrel barked from the lintel, and all the four-footed things of the neighborhood seemed at home there,
Polly sent her over there on an errand and she had felt unusually aggrieved because she had had to wind quills, or hetchel, instead of going berrying, or some like pleasant amusement. "Poor little cosset," grandma would say, pityingly.
"But having been a chemist in a very good way of business just off Hanover Square during the best years of my life, I have my views, foolish or perhaps the reverse, on the question of infants. My motto, so far as I have one, is, Never cosset." He turned towards Robin, who, from his mother's arms, sent him a look of mild inquiry, and reiterated, with plaintive emphasis, "Never cosset!"
I kept to my room, it is true, and even lay a good deal in bed; but this was more to satisfy the busy scruples of a locum tenens a practitioner of the neighbourhood, who came daily to the prison to officiate in my absence than to cosset a complaint that in its inactivity was purely negative. I could review what had happened with a calmness as profound as if I had read of it in a book.
This girl, a native of Aprey, named Manette Sejournant, was not, strictly speaking, a beauty, but she had magnificent blonde hair, gray, caressing eyes, and a silvery, musical voice. Well built, supple as an adder, modest and prudish in mien, she knew how to wait upon and cosset her master, accustoming him by imperceptible degrees to prefer the cuisine of the chateau to that of the wine-shops.
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