It seems she churns the butter with one foot and rocks a cradleful of twins with the other; with her hands she knits socks for her husband; on her knee rests a book from which she is improving her mind.
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Cradleful
Synonyms for "cradleful"
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... women, and its hourly increasing cribfuls and cradlefuls of babies ... far below them, unfolding, developing, growing under their guardianship like some phenomenal paper flower unfolding in a gigantic bowl of light.
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Not an easy object of affection, she had thought, not the sort of woman who would be content with a few rooms, an absentee mariner husband, and a cradleful of screaming babies.
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What, haven't you heard? it is your friend Jem! he has got a slice of luck, bought a hole of a stranger, saw the stuff glitter, so offered him thirty pounds he was green and snapped at it; and if Jem didn't wash four ounces out the first cradleful I'm a Dutchman.
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