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Always had she coveted something of the kind; but never had The Sheik permitted her more than the single cotton garment that barely sufficed to cover her nakedness. No furs or silks or jewelry had there ever been for little Meriem. And Korak looked at the girl. He had always held girls in a species of contempt. Boys who associated with them were, in his estimation, mollycoddles.
I flew at the other fellow, who was much confused; gave him vigorous shaking twice or thrice, and he only kept open his bewildering eyes. "Come up to my room." Evidently they were mollycoddles, for they obeyed my command without a murmur. The day had become already clear.
I fought my way through crowds of fools, to see a child perform the heroic Coriolanus, the philosophical Hamlet, and the venerable and magnificent Lear. Master Betty was at the height of his reputation; and the dignified and classical Kemble had, for a time, to veil his majestic countenance from the play-going eye. Deeply infatuated, indeed, were the Mollycoddles with their Betty.
The deep red of mortification spread over Scott's face; he looked shyly at Naïda, doubly distressed that a girl should hear the degrading term applied to him. The small girl returned his gaze without a particle of expression in her face. "Mollycoddles," continued Duane cruelly, "do the sort of things you do. You're one." "I don't want to be one," stammered Scott. "How can I help it?"
"This was easy to start," Nimble thought, "but it seems hard to stop. I wish Dodger would run away." In the meantime Mr. Crow and Jasper Jay agreed that the battle was growing tamer every moment. "Hustle it up!" Mr. Crow called to Nimble and Dodger, while Jasper Jay jeered at them both and told them they were mollycoddles. "I shouldn't call this a mock battle now," Mr. Crow told them.
Thus, poor in ideals and vulgar of soul, Roosevelt continues to be the man of the hour. On the other hand, men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism.
"We're a nice aggregation of mollycoddles five of us sitting half frozen up here with a stove on the floor below, and just because we heard a noise which we couldn't explain and hadn't the nerve to investigate." He rose.
He never persuaded his readers into an opinion he bullied them into it. When he gnashed his big teeth and shook his big stick, ... The bold Ascalonite Fled from his iron ramp; old warriors turned Their plated backs under his heel; mollycoddles, pussy-footers, professional pacifists, and nice little men who had lost their fighting edge, all scuttled to cover.
Everybody goes, everybody but a 'Percy dear," replied the younger of the Sophomores with an air of superiority. Joe's face flushed and he faced the speaker, but the other Sophomore spoke before Joe's indignant thoughts could find utterance. "That's all you know about it, Rex," he said reprovingly. "Why, lots of splendid fellows never play billiards and they aren't mollycoddles by any means.
In practice what happens is that parents notice that boys brought up at home become mollycoddles, or prigs, or duffers, unable to take care of themselves. They see that boys should learn to rough it a little and to mix with children of their own age. This is natural enough.
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