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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dandle .
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Examples
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Rather, my first thought is of the scene in which Tom wonderfully and perfectly portrayed by Nick Nolte dandles a priceless violin out the window, reducing Lowenstein's husband to the quivering pile of crap his cruel personality has always veiled.
"I was not angry since I came to France / Until this instant...." M-mv 2007
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One makes a fool of himself to make his lord merry, another dandles my young master, bestows a little nag on him, a third marries a cracked piece, &c.
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Rather, my first thought is of the scene in which Tom wonderfully and perfectly portrayed by Nick Nolte dandles a priceless violin out the window, reducing Lowenstein's husband to the quivering pile of crap his cruel personality has always veiled.
Archive 2007-11-01 M-mv 2007
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“And the flowers half-opened on the surface,” replied Minha, “and which the current dandles like the breeze!”
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Frances cooks him a hearty breakfast and he dandles Joe on his knee while forking scrambled eggs and bacon rashers into his mouth and giving an ac-count of his adventures all at the same time.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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The two following stanzas of playful namby-pambyism, are a specimen of the manner in which this gentleman dandles his kid: --
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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There occurs, upon this occasion, one of the most beautiful scenes in the Iliad, where Hector dandles the boy in his arms, and pours forth a prayer, that he may one day be superior in fame to his father.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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There occurs, upon this occasion, one of the most beautiful scenes in the Iliad, where Hector dandles the boy in his arms, and pours forth a prayer, that he may one day be superior in fame to his father.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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While she dandles the babe in her arms to the sound.
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Here in rhythmic curves, she dandles lovely Cupid on her toe; serves as vestal virgin at
Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank
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