Well would the King, to save his soul, placate and cosset his wife.

"Here, open your mouth, Cosset," he said to the lamb that he still held.

I will cosset her up a little when I get to the country, and make a fuss over her.

So you may, and I will feed you as if you were my cosset lamb.

For once, there were no sentimental women waiting to cosset the bandit.

But Nature is no sentimentalist—does not cosset or pamper us.

Let the new bourgeois tyrants cuddle and cosset the serpent that shall bite them, as did the salon ladies of the old regime.

Late in the day, on Tuesday the twenty-sixth, Cosset and his band made their appearance.

Her task should be this,—to feed and cosset him if possible into good humour before her guest should arrive.

That colt went off as ferce as a wild-cat, and come back as quiet as a cosset lamb.