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Glasgow might be the perceived cradle of cutting-edge art, but Edinburgh is no longer the staid sister it once was.
As the cradle of western civilisation, it is also your big fat spiritual home.
There was a pause followed by the resounding noise of a telephone receiver being slammed back onto its cradle.
More importantly, the story itself seems to get tripped up in a cat's cradle of thematic connections.
The Carolinas can rightfully claim to be the cradle of American barbecue and Texas is by far the brisket capital of the world.
Let the clouds drift over the red sun, sinking in blood, and sleep in a cradle of ice and terror until the dawn breaks redly over the ocean.
The males are left behind to guard and hatch the eggs, which they cradle at all times on top of their feet, even during blinding blizzards.
The lake was the cradle of Andean civilisation and remains enduringly known as the birthplace of the Inca empire.
Her gown cuts down so low behind her he can slip his hand beneath the silken material to cradle the soft swell of her buttocks.
A yellow cradle for storing the digital pen is cleverly built into the upper-right corner of the keyboard.
The longboat was launched before a crowd of about 500 at Town Beach, the cradle of history in this district.
One should cushion the fall, cradle the head, remove glasses, and loosen tight clothes.
The Hollywood actress and her lover want their love child to be born in Africa because it is the cradle of civilization.
From cradle to grave one is cast in the mould of fascismo and there can be no escape.
Diamond-set petals cradle large turquoise, coral, or onyx stones to make dramatic, showstopping rings.
Alfred is a simon-pure Republican, rocked in his cradle to the stirring rhythms of G.O.P. speeches, grown to a man sure to vote the party line.
An icon of a crawling Krishna in a silver cradle or leaf is placed in the mandapam.
I have fitted a plastimo 'universal' cradle to the pushpit of my 34, which holds an 8 man raft.
The gaff, the muck-fork spear and the hayfork-turf candle form a tripod for the salmon to cradle in and are heroic in size and cast in bronze.
She became fascinated by basket-making 16 years ago, when she saw her sister-in-law making a baby's cradle.
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Examples from Classical Literature
By this practice, even in the cradle, his disrelish for ardent spirits is done away.
Then it was that the Chambertin or the clos Vougeot came in, slumbering in its straw cradle.
It appeared that southernwood had been Mr. Green's favorite plant from his cradle, as one might say.
Poitiers was the cradle of Alinor of Aquitaines brilliant and debonaire line of troubadours, crusaders, and church builders.
We vaguely located this Asiatic cradle somewhere westward or northwestward of the great plateau of Thibet.
To the wall-like cliffs the house martin, Chelidon urbica, often attaches its mud-built cradle.
The chinampa, at its anchorage, swung lightly, like an Indian cradle pendulous in the air.
An angel, noticing a lovely child in its cradle, and deeming it too pure for earth, bears its spirit away to Heaven.
The boatmen of the Malabar Coast face the surf singing no other than the refrain that the Basque women murmur over the cradle.
It is to have Tyranny as your progenitor, and slavery as your prenatal cradle.
I want to help you all I can, but what I came here for is to get the Little Boy in the cradle.
Money for christening, for confession, for everything from the cradle to the grave.
A few hours later I tore myself away and returned to the hangar, where the Pioneer now reposed in a scaffolded cradle.
When d'Albert plays Chopin's berceuse, beautifully, it is a lullaby for healthy male children growing too big for the cradle.
The Valley of Cuzco, the central region of Peru, was the cradle of their civilisation.
The mate comes up, his arm strapped to his side, and stumbles into the cradle.
Yet much time passed, and their rock-hewn cradle was still empty, when a happy thought struck a wise man of treen.
A huge Christmas pie, made in the shape of a cratch or cradle, was placed on the board.
Perhaps we are not afraid of menservants if we look out at them from the cradle.
Perhaps we are not afraid of menservants if we looked out at them from the cradle.
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