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"Mollycoddle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... did see a rabbit put up a worse fight than that one did. I rode up to its fragments, and the old lady was saying how ripping it was and calling sister a mollycoddle, because here was sister crying like a baby over the rabbit's fate—a rabbit she'd never set eyes on before in her life. Brother didn't look like he had gone in keenly for the sport, either. He was kind of green ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... for. Yet some day, I have just remembered, he may have problems that can't be brought to me. But that day, please God, I shall defer as long as possible. Already we have our own little secrets and private compacts and understandings. I don't want my boy to be a mollycoddle. But I want him to have his chance in the world. I want him to be somebody. I can't reconcile myself to the thought of him growing up to wear moose-mittens and shoe-packs and stretching barb-wire in blue-jeans and riding a tractor across a prairie back-township. ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer
... be sorry. No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry! Because you're with ...
— Something Else Again • Franklin P. Adams |
Words linked to "Mollycoddle" : handle, cosset, featherbed, dearie, favorite, coddle, baby, ducky, do by, mollycoddler, darling, pamper, indulge, pet, deary, cocker |
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