dandling

And after Siegfried slays Mime, he sits around, dandling the dwarf's severed head on his knee.

Misjudged Siegfried Is No Laughing Matter Judy Fayard 2011

He plays with the long composition, repeating figures: there's Dad off to work; there's Kelly slaying buffalo; there's Lily and April sur l'herbe in their swim-team suits, lunching with the painter; there's Jimmy flinging U.S. currency to the wind; there's Connie dandling Erin; there's Ernest intently making a drawing, his first.

Thanksgiving Bill Roorbach 2011

Her father had looked about, dusted himself down, and said aloud the name of the place to his dandling child, his teeth good and strong in his smile.

One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

When your hand moves from side to side your dandling my dark abstraction and then when you send me to womb strewn I'm entirely marooned on the swoon.

Oogy Wawa Penny Goring 2011

A girl of about eight seemed to be the designated babysitter, dandling a well-wrapped infant on her knee while simultaneously keeping a small herd of toddlers out from underfoot and away from the stove, where a batch of doughnuts was sizzling in hot lard.

The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

He could imagine her dandling a babe on her knee, crooning softly to it about hot cross buns and mulberry bushes as Mother used to do.

A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010

She spent the rest of her childhood dandling babies, stirring pans, and forcing sodden washing through the family mangle.

Fifty years of the pill 2010

“You love your dog,” the vet said, her hand finding her throat and dandling the necklace there.

ALONE With You Marisa Silver 2010

He could imagine her dandling a babe on her knee, crooning softly to it about hot cross buns and mulberry bushes as Mother used to do.

A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010

He'd be sitting round the fire dandling children on his knee, rather than running about on strange assignments for Cranmer and Catherine Parr.

A life in books: CJ Sansom Sarah Crown 2010