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    nestling


    1. Agile and talkative she led me through winding streets and alleyways, turning left - then up some steps, then right - and down some more, then a little slope until at last she pointed to a restaurant nestling in the corner of a shaded square and proudly announced, “Restaurant Virrgenia


    2. Some miles to the south of London, nestling in the gently rolling, green swathed hills of the Surrey Downs, there stands an old country manor house, which boasts the thickest of stone walls, a small but nonetheless impressive little tower and ornate white painted wooden gables


    3. The road winds along the edge of the cliffs, following the contours of the bays, with fantastic views of the towns nestling along the coast and across the bay towards Ischia


    4. Some miles to the south of London, nestling in the gently


    5. He took the stone box and packed it carefully in his bag, nestling


    6. I rested, nestling Jesus in my arms, dozing


    7. Her memory of a rose covered cottage nestling on the edge of a mountain valley was a child's fantasy, something that her mind had mixed up with some other place in a fairy tale


    8. He purred with delight at the slightest touch, nestling his head in our hands, directing our strokes, lifting his chin, as if he were smiling


    9. and then, taking my hand, laid it on something soft and warm, nestling


    10. Nestling in each other’s arms we spoke about this and that and nothing in particular until we both fell asleep

    11. The hospital armchair was soft and she reclosed her eyes, nestling into a more comfortable position, but then flicked them open again after a couple of seconds


    12. Her obviously male companion whispered in her ear and the pair of them giggled, nuzzling and cooing over some private joke, like mourning doves nestling together on a branch in winter


    13. Brendan made soothing empathetic noises and chucked the stuff he needed onto the skid, big rolls of corrugated tubing with the connectors nestling in the middle


    14. across at Bruce who was nestling a bottle of beer in one hand and Juliet’s hand in his other


    15. The normal way would have been me, nestling in his arms, but this time I sit next to him, close, but not too close


    16. Nestling close, Tui's cheek tucked perfectly into the hollow of his neck


    17. When he had begun the meditation in earnest, he found the mind-cane was nestling in his right hand, as if it had been there for a long time although he hadn’t been aware of it


    18. He brought himself up to his knees and brushed away the tiny fragments of rock nestling in his hair


    19. rested out on his nestling the bullet chip gun deep into his ear


    20. Typically, it kills nestling and weaning budgies, but it can also be carried in adults without symptoms

    21. "To live," she said, nestling her head against his warm body


    22. the limo, nestling intimately close to Hope so he could catch a scent


    23. As parched as the grass was, she was charmed by the nearly microscopic flowers of various colors nestling among the blades


    24. Mother thought that I was merely a nestling baby bird; and I was not ready to leave the world of nest


    25. She steps forward and wraps her arms around me, nestling her head on my shoulder


    26. And nestling in the hollow,


    27. threw her arms around Rad’s neck, nestling her face into it


    28. ” she stood to the side of the sculpted arbors, nestling herself into a curve of alcove, as laughter crashed through the archway, skipping through on giggles of 'Excuse us' , 'Hello Heaven' , and 'Welcome everyone' s ' that parted and pardoned their way through the group


    29. ' Does not that sound hopeless? After reading these things, sweet with the tainted sweetness of decay, of, ruin, of the past, the gone, it is like having fresh spring water dashed over one on a languid afternoon to remember Walt Whitman's brave attitude toward 'delicate death,' 'the sacred knowledge of death,' 'lovely, soothing death,' 'cool, enfolding death,' 'strong deliveress, ''vast and well-veiled death,' 'the body gratefully nestling close to death,' 'sane and sacred death


    30. We who are nestling for the moment like Priscilla beneath the warm wing of Good Fortune can dare to make what the children call a face at her grey sister as she limps scowling past

    31. But there was Lucy's little hand, so clinging, so understanding, nestling in his


    32. But there were even more wonderful moments after dinner in the darkening garden, while Miss Entwhistle was upstairs packing ready to start by the early train next morning, and they hadn't got the gate between them, and Lucy of her own accord laid her cheek against his coat, nestling her head into it as though there indeed she knew that she was safe


    33. 24 months ago, Karl brought the most expensive purchase of his life; a 15 bedroom manor house nestling in acres and acres of private forest in Hampshire


    34. Cozily nestling against each other


    35. Dimly I felt her hands moving and breaking the kiss for only a moment it was to find her fitting the necklace back around my neck and nestling the ring into the top of my shirt with her fingers


    36. The cinema, his objective, was no more than a hundred yards up from the high street, nestling incongruously beside a hair-care salon


    37. “No,” she said, nestling her head in the crook of his neck


    38. I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother,


    39. And the body gratefully nestling close to thee


    40. As we left the door of our house, nestling in, perhaps, the most peaceful nook in Kent, the sky, after weeks of perfectly brazen serenity, veiled its blue depths and started to weep fine tears for the refreshment of the parched fields

    41. my nursery lore---to herself, or watching the birds, joint tenants, feed and entice their young ones to fly: or nestling with closed lids, half thinking, half dreaming, happier than words can express


    42. At intervals, away in the distance, nestling in the hollows or amid sheltering trees, groups of farm buildings and stacks of hay; and further on, the square ivy-clad tower of an ancient church, or perhaps a solitary windmill with its revolving sails alternately flashing and darkening in the rays of the sun


    43. And ever and again, when her wandering glance reverted to the frail atom of humanity nestling by her side, her brows contracted and her eyes filled with bitter tears, as she weakly reached out her trembling hand to adjust its coverings, faintly murmuring, with quivering lips and a bursting heart, some words of endearment and pity


    44. There was a canary on his head and, miraculously, the canary stayed there, all through dinner, all through afterwards, falling asleep, nestling in


    45. She snakes her neck, nestling


    46. THEY ALL SLEPT in the great hall of the castle, with William’ s servants and squires and dogs, wrapping their cloaks around them and nestling into the carpet of rushes on the floor


    47. Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fullness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter


    48. His chin nestling within the points of his collar, he devoured her stealthily with his eyes, which, luckily, were round and hard like clouded marbles, and incapable of disclosing his sentiments


    49. It should be noted that the handler had an abundance of curls worthy of Harpo Marx, so anything nestling there would have enjoyed the same comfort and security as a baby chick within the nest


    50. The village of Bree had some hundred stone houses of the Big Folk, mostly above the Road, nestling on the hillside with windows looking west










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    Synonyms for "nestling"

    baby bird nestling child fry kid minor nipper shaver small fry tiddler tike tyke youngster

    "nestling" definitions

    young bird not yet fledged


    a young person of either sex