mollycoddle
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The Mollycoddle, The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers and Don Q Son of Zorro display a wit and a zest that shame most of today's bloated adventure films.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Mollycoddle in action is the Crank: it is he who accomplishes reforms; who abolished slavery, for example, and revolutionised prisons and lunatic asylums.
From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
Without the Red-blood there would be no life at all, no stuff, so to speak, for the Mollycoddle to work upon; without the Mollycoddle, the stuff would remain shapeless and chaotic.
From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
The Mollycoddle engenders ideas, and the Red-blood exploits them.
From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
Not but what the Mollycoddle may act, and act efficiently.
From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
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