Cradlesome

But I had been pushed across the boundary by I didn't know what hands, whether streaked or cradlesome or hooflike, and I could not turn around.

No one, of course, has seen her, and Ned and Beetie are about to experience the hammocking, cradlesome shock that is the beginning of despair.

And Geneva-Honey Crowningburg — she of the cradlesome escutcheon, the electric wool — she looms in a paper-shaded brokeneye and waves "bye- bye" (which is dumb since her man is plainly coming home, not going away).