cosseting

When one has one's flowers by the specimen and not by the score, such cosseting is possible.

Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden 1886

If the cosseting was a simple demonstration of respect towards a world leader, then why the flippancy towards Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II?

NY Post: News 2009

If the cosseting was a simple demonstration of respect towards a world leader, then why the flippancy towards Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II?

NY Post: News 2009

At the Parrot Cay resort, guests enjoy a simple but luxurious aesthetic of white walls, cavernous bathrooms and four-poster beds, as well as "cosseting" service.

Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

At the Parrot Cay resort, guests enjoy a simple but luxurious aesthetic of white walls, cavernous bathrooms and four-poster beds, as well as "cosseting" service.

unknown title 2009

Had one noble thought opening the chambers of the intellect, one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by them, the reader had been made a participator of their triumph; he too had been an invited and eternal guest; but this reward granted them is property, all-excluding property, a little cake baked for them to eat and for none other, nay, a preference and cosseting which is rude and insulting to all but the minion.

Uncollected Prose 2006

Had one noble thought opening the chambers of the intellect, one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by them, the reader had been made a participator of their triumph; he too had been an invited and eternal guest; but this reward granted them is property, all-excluding property, a little cake baked for them to eat and for none other, nay, a preference and cosseting which is rude and insulting to all but the minion.

Uncollected Prose 1832

"cosseting"; she laughed to scorn, but genially, the nurse's prejudice against "the night air."

In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

To leave some in Pakistan to conclude that cosseting America's No. 1 enemy was not a fatal foolishness on their part might seem a tad unwise.

Civilization Vindicated Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

There's something pleasing about the way it eschews all the standard baggage that comes with middle-of-the-road, Radio 2-playlisted artists: no gentle trip-hop breakbeats or cosseting synth washes, no hitmaking songwriters-for-hire buried in the credits, no post-Amy Winehouse retro soul or supper-club jazz scenery.

Rumer: seasons of my soul – review Alexis Petridis 2010