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Usage examples of mollycoddle.

Quint followed, astride a short-coupled bay mare renowned on the ranch for her ability to mollycoddle the greenest rider, hence earning the name Molly.

But he always put on another pair and another suit come the morningrested the mollycoddles or something, he said.

But he always put on another pair and another suit come the morning-rested the mollycoddles or something, he said.

She called Matzerath a mollycoddle, whereupon he picked up his trousers, stepped in, and buttoned up.

Unless Americans act, people like you and me who take their country seriously while those mollycoddles in Washington sit on their hindsides, unless we act, Mexico—and I mean the whole of the country—will one day fly a European flag.

Burn her, if everyone did not stop expecting her to be mollycoddled all the day long.

Still, he thought, his back aching, wanting a bath and massage too, and the attentions of his youthful friend, I suppose I would be the same if I was as exalted as them, so mollycoddled from birth, and only sixteen.

I run a yard on a very tight budget and I can’t ensure every horse I sell on is going to be mollycoddled for the rest of its life.

I assume my readers have the kind of elastic minds that don’t need mollycoddling with a lot of fake theorizing.

They're mine and they're good and they aren't messed up with a lot of mollycoddling regular army regulations'.

A little older, a little colder: and already are they mystifiers, and mumblers and mollycoddles.

But whatever you do or don't do, stop mollycoddling and conceding and apologising and wimping out.