Crossword-Solution: CODDLES 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The French mother coddles her children, the boys as well as the girls: when they tumble and bark their knees they are expected to cry, and not taught to control themselves as English and American children are.

And how have we responded? I bet they think we’re a precious lot of molly-coddles! I bet they’re laughing in their sleeves all the time.

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!' But then they walked on for a full quarter of a mile before either said another word; and then it was, 'You don't think Felix looking ill, do you, Lance?' 'I never thought about his looks at all,' said Lance.

Surely he wouldn't refuse me, but how do I know for sure? How does a man even know if a woman is--? CHAPTER X TOGETHER? When business and love crowd each other on a man's desk he calmly puts love in a pigeon-hole to wait for a convenient time and attends strictly to business, while a woman takes up and coddles the tender passion and stands business over in the corner with its face to the wall to keep it from intruding.

The family coddles him into a change of heart, and then finds it impossible to believe that their jest has become earnest and that their father's health is really in danger.