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Definition of Caudling
1. caudle [v] - See also: caudle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caudling
Literary usage of Caudling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... and durst not touch or be touched; in the shape of work, it can do nothing;
at the utmost, by incessant nursing and caudling, keep itself alive. ..."
2. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (1909)
"... and durst not touch or be touched; in the shape of work, it can do nothing;
at the utmost, by incessant nursing and caudling, keep itself alive. ..."
3. A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of by Sherwin Cody (1903)
"... and durst not touch or be touched; in the shape of work, it can do nothing;
at the utmost, by incessant nursing and caudling, keep itself alive. ..."
4. Medical and Surgical Reporter (1852)
"They must unavoidably sometime meet with hardships, and it may then prove fatal
to have encouraged a habit of "caudling" in early youth. ..."
5. Widow Spriggins, Mary Elmer, and Other Sketches by Frances M. Whitcher (1868)
"Ere you've been here a day, dear, 'Twill look as bad as ever, Don' t say I'm
caudling, pray, dear, For I never mean to — never. It was a real pleasure, ..."
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