cradle

• An often overlooked facet of the Battle of the Alamo was the inclusive nature of those who volunteered to defend what we know as the cradle of Texas liberty. —  Capitol Annex
• They place them without care in a kind of cradle, which is set on the top of a camel's load. —  Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.
• The following is from Du Pratz, who is speaking of the work of the inhabitants of the lower Mississippi This cradle is about two feet and a half long, nine inches broad. —  Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46
• If they had but been taught to measure with their pitiful thoughts the tortures of battle-fields--the slowly consuming plagues of death in the starving children, and wasted age, of the innumerable desolate those battles left;--nay, in our own life of peace, the agony of unnurtured, untaught, unhelped creatures, awaking at the grave's edge to know how they should have lived; and the worse pain of those whose existence, not the ceasing of it, is death; those to whom the cradle was a curse, and for whom the words they cannot hear, "ashes to ashes," are all that they have ever received of benediction. —  Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870
• "{43 The old lullaby tradition is continued by Wither, though the infant in the cradle is an ordinary human child, who is rocked to sleep with the story of his Lord A little Infant once was He And strength in weakness then was laid Upon His virgin-mother's knee That power to thee might be conveyed Sweet baby, then, forbear to weep Be still, my babe; sweet baby, sleep Within a manger lodged thy Lord Where oxen lay and asses fed Warm rooms we do to thee afford An easy cradle or a bed Sweet baby, then, forbear to weep Be still, my babe; sweet baby, sleep. —  Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan

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