例文・使い方で印象づける「cradle」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...“Is not all life from the cradle to the grave one long yearning for that which we never touch? There must be a Hereafter because we cannot think of any end to life... 
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
... She'll marry dat rich w'ite gent'eman,—he won'tnever know de diffe'nce,—an' be a w'ite lady, ez she would 'a' be'n,ef some ole witch had n' changed her in her cradle...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...He was as pleased andsoothed as a naughty infant when it islifted from its cradle and nursed...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
...Two things in the room seemedto engross the most of his attention: the baby in the cradle, and the ropewhich was attached to the ladder...
Leo Tolstoy 「The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories」
...Cases have been known of their attacking infants in the cradle, andseverely lacerating them...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Tereshićha says that he was originally thestump of a tree, which his father and mother, beingchildless, had picked up in the forest, and wrapped upand rocked in a cradle till he was born...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...When our American robin comes out of the turquoise blue egg thathis devoted mother has warmed into life, he usually finds three orfour baby brothers and sisters huddled within the grassy cradle...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...An exquisitely dainty littlecup of plant down, felted into a compact cradle and stuccoed with bitsof lichen bound on by spider-web, can scarcely be told from a knot onthe limb to which it is fastened...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...The cradle is sometimesplaced in the crotch of an elder bush, sometimes in a willow tree;preferably near water where insects are abundant, but often in aterminal branch of some orchard tree...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...High up on some beam, too high for the children to reach, let us hope,a pair of barn swallows will plaster their mud cradle...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...When the basket cradle has been stuck against a chimney-side, it looksas if it were covered with a thin coat of isinglass...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...A flock that has followed anocean greyhound all day will settle down to sleep at night "bedded" onthe rolling water like ducks while "rocked in the cradle of the deep...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...I recollect hearingmy mother say one day to somebody,--"Pussywas spoiled by her experience inthe cradle...
Helen Jackson 「Letters from a Cat」
...Then yourgrandfather made up a nice bed inthe cradle, out of Charlie's winterblanket and an old pillow, and laidme down in it, all rolled up as I wasin your petticoat...
Helen Jackson 「Letters from a Cat」
...In Sussex and Kent, when I was a boy, itwas commonly played among children, but always called cat's, catch, orscratch cradle, and consisted generally of two or more players...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
...Sometimes the birdutilises the deserted cradle of a fishing-eagle or vulture...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
... and whata nice cradle it must be for thebaby Orioles?...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [June, 1897]」
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