He loved to joke and tease, and never lost an opportunity. "Things seem to be working out all right. Now for some fun with Her Highness," he said to himself. As the Colonel surveyed the pleasant home scene he felt he had nothing more to wish for. The youngsters were playing with a shaggy little pup which had already taken Tige's place in their fickle affections. His wife was crooning a lullaby as she gently rocked the cradle to and fro. A wonderful mite of humanity peacefully slumbered in that old cradle. Annie was beginning to set the table for the evening meal.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
In this upright cradle I lived, played and slept the greater part of the time during the first few months of my life. Whether I was made to lean against a lodge pole or was suspended from a bough of a tree, while my grandmother cut wood, or whether I was carried on her back, or con- veniently balanced by another child in a similar cradle hung on the opposite side of a pony, I was still in my oaken bed.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
When our babe he goeth swinging in his cradle, Then the night it looketh ever sweetly down; The little stars are kind to him, The moon she hath a mind to him And layeth on his head a golden crown; And singeth then the wind to him A song, the gentle song of Bethlem-town, When our babe he goeth swinging in his cradle.英文原著 · 《Love-Songs of Childhood》
The official was much astonished to see that the cradle, which he had supposed to be empty, contained a baby, which, young though it was, already gave promise of great beauty. Having no children himself, although he had been married some years, it at once occurred to him that here was a child which he could take and bring up as his own. And, bidding the man pick up the cradle and follow him, he turned towards home.英文原著 · 《The Arabian Nights》
'Grandpa won't play cat's-cradle,' said Posy, as Mrs Arabin entered the room. 'No, darling--not this morning,' said the old man. He himself well knew that he would never play cat's-cradle again. Even that was over for him how. 'She teases you, papa,' said Mrs Arabin. 'No, indeed,' said he. 'Posy never teases me;' and he slowly moved his withered hand down outside the bed, so as to hold the child by her frock. 'Let her stay with me, my dear.'
'Dr Filgrave is downstairs, papa.英文原著 · 《The Last Chronicle of Barset》
Lully, lully, my babe, Hope cradle bringeth Unto my children alway good rest taking: The babe cries, "Way, thy love doth keep me waking."英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》