..."Do you mean ter 'low that she wuz changed in her cradle, er is she toogood-lookin' to be my daughter?"... 
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...The farmer produces from the time that he leaves his cradle until he enters his grave: the fruits of art and science are late and scarce; frequently the tree dies before the fruit ripens...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...Two eggs laid on the ground in aslight cradle of twigs...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...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)」
...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」
...Shirking as shedoes every motherly duty, she sneaks about the woods and thickets,slyly watching her chance to lay an egg in the cradle of some otherbird, since she never makes a nest of her own...
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」
...Twigs, leaves and grasses form the rude cradle for the eggs, and, as afinal touch of devotion, the mother bird plucks feathers from her ownsoft breast for the eggs to lie in...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
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The marsh wren's round cradle swung among the rushes...
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」
...Would he go back to his cradle for the night? Itseemed not improbable, notwithstanding he had shown no sign of such anintention so long as daylight lasted...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...Slowly the young Phœnix descended to the nest which had been at oncea sepulchre and a cradle...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...Sometimes the birdutilises the deserted cradle of a fishing-eagle or vulture...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
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