"Turns out her own flesh and blood, a girl, too, to shift for herself, and coddles this man, this artist thing, for her dear deceased's sake.
"The Reclaimers"
Margaret Hill McCarter
3d Gentleman: The doting father who trusts not his son But anxious coddles him from ev'ry care Can never know what possibilities Do dormant lie within that stunted brain.
"'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts"
Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)
Then the children got out into the garden, and with the natural impatience of the evil omen, exclaimed at the same moment- 'Croak, croak, croak, went the frogs,' and 'Were there ever such a pair of good old coddles?
"The Pillars of the House, V1"
Charlotte M. Yonge