the young mother sat [the infant] upright in her lap, and[…]dandled it with a gloomy indifference.
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Dandle
/ˈdændəl/
Synonyms for "dandle" (18 found)
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You will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.
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Hands grasped me like a doll, and as I dandled thus between the meretrices of Abaia, I was lifted from my broad-armed chair in the inn of Saltus; yet still, for perhaps a hundred heartbeats more, I could not rid my mind of the sea and its green-haired women.
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[T]hey have put me in a silk night-gown and gaudy fool's cap, and make me now and then stand in the window with it. I am ashamed to be dandled thus, and cannot look in the glass without blushing to see myself turned into such a pretty little master.
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