The altar was, as usual, in colours to suit the simple mind; the Madonna in blue and white and gold with a sweet expression of youth and maternity, her cheeks were like china, and she Dandled the sweetest little red-haired baby in a nest of gold rays, all against a rocky background.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
From the time that she, a big girl, had Dandled him, a baby, in her lap; throughout her brief youth, when she was engaged to young Mr. Gascoigne, who died; up to her somewhat silly and helpless middle- age, there never was anybody, to Miss Grey, like "my brother Arnold."
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
As he moved away, free of step and straight as an Indian, he filliped away a small budding twig of the saskatoon which one of the youths had brought in to show how the woods were answering the call of the warm sun, and which he had Dandled in his fingers as he walked.
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe