It is even possible they were a little jealous of the cosseting I was getting.

Maybe the swings in humor were worse than the cosseting.

A mile, no more, into the cosseting of the stone surrounds.

"I'd like to be young enough for your cosseting, sister, even if it meant a spanking.

Single guests accustomed to state-of-the-art cosseting doubled up without complaint.

(I think she'd been drinking as part of the cosseting.)

"And suppose I refuse all this silly cosseting?"

I'll bide a wee while in your hospital, but there's to be no cosseting, you'll understand!'

The company's sales effort emphasizes rarified pleasures, constant cosseting and sheer exclusivity.

The feeling is of delicious cosseting: warm carpets, deep divans and a small flower-edged courtyard.

He treated that bodyguard with suspicious softness, and Lydiell's family was known for its ridiculous cosseting of humans.

The event was not a fund-raiser, one aide said, but a form of "donor maintenance" - the cosseting of important supporters.

Uncritical cosseting of dictators has made the United States the target of opposition groups throughout the region.

It filled the cabin with cheerful noise for a couple of hours, and Jemmy loved the cosseting of a half-dozen miniature mothers.

They have turned a 19th-century bungalow surrounded by a cast-iron veranda and a cosseting garden into a paradisiacal restaurant with five bedrooms attached.

His managers might do better to leave him to the cosseting of the recording studio rather than resist further exposure, even with unthreatening repertory like this.

This kind of talent, along with their warmhearted cosseting of their writers, explains why so many were willing to work for them for slave wages.

You have to press a doorbell to enter As Janelas Verdes, a cosseting, antique-furnished, 18th-century house on the edge of Lapa.

Family friendly, with heavenly swimming pools and a good beach to right and left, it's made for a cosseting, 21st-century seaside holiday - if you've got the bucks.

Florence had longed to tell her that her cosseting of the child was doing more harm than good, but she guessed that Mr. Fitzgibbon had already made that plain.

Lancaster, with his early manoeuvrings, has neatly and cleverly distanced himself from the last troubled days of Martin Johnson's reign with its associations of indiscipline and excessive cosseting.

Dark eyes glowing, she was both matter of fact and regal, submitting graciously to the cosseting of early Dunham dancers who had come to St. Louis to teach in the seminar.

A helicopter parent (also called a cosseting parent or simply a cosseter) is a parent who pays extremely close attention to a child's or children's experiences and problems, particularly at educational institutions.

The décor is too funky for its shirt, but the MacBook, iPod and personal butler standard to each room make for a cosseting stay (www.casacolombo.com; double b & b from £180).

It was a task of no little status, judging from the cosseting she received from everyone from Count Piotr down to the kitchen maid who brought her nutritious little snacks at odd hours.

There was usually neither space nor time for cosseting individual students.

The would-be model is the only girl in the family, and thus cosseted from the big bad world.

Thus cosseted, he talked about the most important thing in his life: passion.

And they might lose the first boy, who was plainly used to being cosseted by his teacher.

Not everything about Table 8 is quite so cosseting as the welcome and the décor.

You have cigarettes-enough and the right sort to cosset your cancer?

Of course it was also a runner thing, to be cosseted in need, but she'd never been the recipient before.

No, you've been cosseted and pampered too long to survive in the real world.

I write five hours a day cosseted in my rent-stabilized apartment.

Most have been cosseted - probably because they cost $1,500 extra when new.

"What makes you think I didn't come to cosset my horse?"

Some artists are cosseted and coaxed, so that they put their best foot forward.

The Flame knows we have tried to raise many times, tending and cosseting it.

The bars were cosseted in red velvet and stacked according to size.

And completely forget about the fact that it looks as if you're cosseting me because I'm a girl."

But Pakistan's recent prime ministers have been cosseted with luxury.

The experience of making the latter film "was strangely cosseting" despite the explosions.

It's hard to imagine anyone better suited to cosset political conventioneers.

Yet he would cosset Rebecca as if she were a tender plant that needed nurturing.

In her motherly concerned way, she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life.

"Her mother died at her birth, and with six brothers she has been much cosseted."

A big, strong man to protect and cosset her."

She was cosseted by most of the other sisters for how well she had adjusted.

Not to put too fine a point on it, you have been cosseted - feather-bedded as some of my colleagues would say.

She wasn't a visitor here, to be cosseted and indulged.