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Examples
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Draft and Coddle Of all the teams that finished near the top of the draft rankings, the Colts have been the winningest in recent years.
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His message, delivered in a slick PowerPoint presentation: Coddle, don't punish.
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“Coddle them, filter out all the bugs, and they still get sick.”
Infiltrator W.R. Thompson 1996
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Coddle them with white Wine and Water, and cover them with sliced
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Take your fairest Quinces and Coddle them until a straw will run through them, then core them and pare them, then take their weight in fine
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"Is it being a Molly Coddle to be strong and true to yourself?"
All Aboard A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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Coddle them so tender that a straw may run thorow them, then take grated
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"_He_ certainly is no Molly Coddle!" he observed, finally, with a vivid remembrance of the captain's stern visage and curt manner upon a certain uncomfortable occasion.
All Aboard A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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Look at the portrait of her, painted by Coddle at the height of her amazing beauty: note the sensitive nostrils, the delicate little mouth, and those eyes -- the gayest, merriest eyes that ever charmed a king's heart; and her hair -- that "mass of waving corn," as Bloodworthy describes it in his celebrated book of "International Beauties."
Terribly Intimate Portraits Noel Coward 1936
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What had he been Doing that he should attempt to Coddle her into a Forgiving Mood?
More Fables George Ade 1905
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