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  • Sporting behind the scenes of death and burial from cradlehood, the Misses Mould knew better.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • Samuel Borlase was one of them rare childer who see his calling fixed in his little mind from cradlehood.

    The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • An only child was Richard, and the apple of his father's eye, and spoilt from his cradlehood by both parents; and so, when he wanted Milly Boon, they didn't see why not, though she was a pauper, because his father felt that it might be a good thing for Dick to wed a wife and settle down.

    The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • Was it true, was it reality -- this figure that the underworld knew as Smarlinghue, who sat here, and with dirty fingers played with a whisky glass on the cheap, liquor-spotted table, and out of half-closed, well-simulated drug-laden eyes gazed on those dancing figures out there on the floor to whom the law from cradlehood had been

    The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale 1909

  • Sporting behind the scenes of death and burial from cradlehood, the Misses Mould knew better.

    Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

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