6 Metaphors for cradling

A cradle is the sleeping place of a child wrapped in swaddling clothes and crying for the mother's milk.

Thy cradle was a nest of softest moss, And her caresses lulled thee to thy sleep.

Besides, the cradle is a piece of furniture which takes up a great deal of space in the nursery; and every one who has made the trial effectually, will, it seems to me, greatly prefer its room to its company.

"Oh, tell me, pretty river, Whence do thy waters flow? And whither art thou roaming, So smoothly and so slow?" "My birthplace was the mountain, My nurse the April showers; My cradle was a fountain, O'er-curtained by wild flowers.

The birth of the Romantic School can be pretty definitely set at about 1796; its cradle was in the quaint university town of Jena, at that time the home of Schiller and his literary-esthetic enterprises, and only a few miles away from Goethe in Weimar.

In 1768 he came to the conclusion that most farmers began to cut their wheat too late, for of course cradling was a slow processscarcely four acres per day per cradlerand if the acreage was large several days must elapse before the last of the grain could be cut, with the result that some of it became so ripe that many of the kernels were shattered out and lost before the straw could be got to the threshing floor.

6 Metaphors for  cradling