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Updated: May 5, 2025
In my time, fellows at sea didn't go in for slops and mollycoddling, as all of you do now. By jingo, the gunroom might as well be turned into a nursery at once, with such a pack of children about!" "At all events, we'd never be at a loss for a nurse, old chappie, with you aboard," said Larkyns, sniggering. "Indeed, you'd make even a better one than we could get ashore."
After a time, the chaplain decided not to allow any more such mollycoddling of the soul of his son. Kuno would have to live in the dark. Gone was the tiny bit of visibility. The innumerable incomprehensible events of chaos rolled about the little boy. More of the world pressed into the small bedroom of the humpback than the entire day had contained.
It will probably do the soldier no harm to have people think he is a "little tin god on wheels" any more than it will hurt him to be belittled by the sickly mollycoddling name of "Sammie," no matter how deeply he resents it.
They are never curried, are left standing in the open for hours, and usually in spots exposed to cruel winds when there is a semblance of shelter available within a few feet. The peasants do not believe in 'mollycoddling' their animals, nor themselves. "On the return trip from Dvina I had a fine animal killed almost instantly by his breaking his neck.
It was a regiment which was sensitive about its dignity and was very keenly alive to justice and to courtesy, but which cordially approved absence of mollycoddling, insistence upon the performance of duty, and summary punishment of wrong-doing.
Nothing is more contemptible than for a woman to have perpetually to ask her husband for small sums for housekeeping expenses nothing more annoying and humiliating than to have to apply to him always for money for her own private use nothing more disgusting than to see a man "mollycoddling" about marketing, and rummaging about for cheap articles of all kinds.
When things got easier I put up my tent and lived a little apart, for it is a mistake for an officer ever to grow too familiar with his men, no matter how good they are; and it is of course the greatest possible mistake to seek popularity either by showing weakness or by mollycoddling the men.
The editor took out his note-book and began scribbling. "What brought you so low, Captain Rose?" he inquired without glancing up. Again, before Abe could answer, Samuel trod on his toe. "Thirty mollycoddling women-folks." Abe found his voice and slammed the fist of one hand against the palm of the other. "If you go an' put that in the paper, I'll I'll " Words failed him.
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