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  • You have to line up the cradle's mini USB and HDMI jacks with the corresponding ports on the left side of the phone, then push down until the phone nestles securely in the cradle's concave crevice.

    First Look: Motorola Atrix is an OK smart phone, lacks as a quasi-laptop 2011

  • Each passing wave hugging the cradle's hull, gently easing us into the next trough.

    [ As We Fall, Find Comfort In The Walls ] on 06.07.06 @ 7:18 pm empty-dreams 2006

  • He gestured, glad that the cradle's headboard was turned so the carving was to the wall.

    Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996

  • Ryba's eyes passed over the back side of the cradle's headboard without pausing as she turned and crossed the space toward the kitchen.

    Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996

  • He had meant to decorate the cradle's hood with carvings of wild flowers, but he had found their intricate curves too difficult to cut so had settled for the straight stark lines of piled drums and weapons.

    Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

  • Cables connected the sphere's sixty-four detonator ports to the boxes, and out of the boxes 'switchboard backs an equal number of cables hung down to the firing unit, a padlocked aluminum case between the cradle's feet.

    Stallion Gate Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1986

  • The man trod to the cradle's side and looked down.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • Thou art gone to the grave -- and thy cradle's forsaken.

    The Southern Harmony 1809-1875 1966

  • Worn out with weeping and watching, Bessie lay prone and sleeping upon the floor at the cradle's side.

    Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee

  • Mak, with an assurance worthy of a better cause, declines to believe their report of the cradle's contents, and his wife comes nimbly to his aid with the startling explanation that it is her son without doubt, for she saw him transformed by a fairy into this misshapen changeling precisely on the stroke of twelve.

    The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

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