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  • The old melodic line came lullabying back, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The old melodic line came lullabying back, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The old melodic line came lullabying back, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • But Wood does not give value for lullabying us: a critic is not a governess.

    IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE TEV 2005

  • We almost had Provincial Premiers lullabying to their

    The Masques of Ottawa Domino

  • She seemed delighted to see these ladies, who belong to the Junta, and led us into a large hall where a score of nurses and babies were performing a symphony of singing, hushing, crying, lullabying, and other nursery music.

    Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

  • She seemed delighted to see these ladies, who belong to the _Junta_, and led us into a large hall where a score of nurses and babies were performing a symphony of singing, hushing, crying, lullabying, and other nursery music.

    Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843

  • It was of no use lullabying while she sobbed so; it must be given up, and she must just carry her baby in her arms, and take him with her to the office, for it was long past dinner-time.

    The Grey Woman and other Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • "Well, I confess they are rather of a general nature at present -- belonging to humanity rather than the individual, as you would say -- consisting chiefly in washing, dressing, feeding, and apostrophe, varied with lullabying.

    The Seaboard Parish Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864

  • "Well, I confess they are rather of a general nature at present -- belonging to humanity rather than the individual, as you would say -- consisting chiefly in washing, dressing, feeding, and apostrophe, varied with lullabying.

    The Seaboard Parish, Complete George MacDonald 1864

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