What's irresistible, above all, is her cradling, sensuous, gentle sound.

The men's tender cradling of the women, the crawling in a circle - these moments were as affecting as ever.

Cradling Veronica's disembodied hand to his chest, he picked a direction and ran off down the narrow corridor.

Panning and cradling were the usual methods of extracting the gold from the washdirt.

Cradling Jebel, he walked away.

He slept then, and there were no dreams or sudden wakings, only a gentle cradling by soft, invisible threads that held him firm.

An Evil Cradling was filmed as Blind Flight.

Cradling Meredith, she shooed Patrick out of her way and made him follow her to Dancer's vacated room.

Cradling Meredith, Maggie turned and held her daughter so Beryl and Rushton could see.

His suggestions go beyond the simple cradling of the racquet shaft on one-handed backhands or doubling the grip on two-handers.

Brian Keenan publishes An Evil Cradling, an autobiographical account of more than four years as a hostage in Beirut.

This time, most of the sign language presenters are using the neutral gesture of a hand motioned near the abdomen, but one simulates the cradling of a baby.

The tender cradling of a woman by a man, an echo from his 1962 "Aureole," suggests his love for women and his favoring of heterosexual stage liaisons.

Both shops organised evening readings with Mr Keenan talking about his experiences and reading passages from his account of captivity,An Evil Cradling (Hutchinson, £16.99).

The film is based on Keenan's memoir, An Evil Cradling and Some Other Rainbow by John McCarthy who was a screenplay consultant.

The poet is everywhere present in "An Evil Cradling," a beautifully and movingly written account of his four and half years as a hostage, which, perhaps more than any of the others, conveys the iron-hard reality of isolation.

The tremulous cradling of the Pomerania, steadily climbing the long leagues; her noble forecastle solemnly lifting against heaven, then descending with grave beauty into a spread of foaming beryl and snowdrift, seemed one with the rhythm of his pulse and heart.

Maim, yes, or wound; her hands, clasped inside those of her dancing partner, could have gripped the handle of a knife and driven it home; but to say her touch-or for that matter, her gentle cradling of a baby-was of itself lethal must must have been, as Henry suggested, merely superstition.

On the other side of the room is a black cradle.

Finally, I gave up and put the phone back on its cradle.

The sound of the phone being put back in the cradle.

The cradle had been brought in through the south door.

I put the phone in the cradle and went back to the table.

I set the phone back into the cradle, and looked up at her.

At night, the boy got the cradle, and the old man gave his mother the bed.

But there was no need now to go further than the baby in its cradle.

"The child found in the cradle the next morning did not."

His mother sat on the side of the bed by the cradle.

But is this something made for me from the cradle?

And so it is, in fact the cradle of life.

It also saw the return of the cradle after some 400 years.

He put the phone back into the cradle and stood waiting.

The cradle was clear, men were waiting down there for them.

So he just walked across and put it back in its cradle.

He put the phone back in the cradle and got out of his chair.

She raised the baby boy out of its cradle and brought him forward.

They said, "How can we talk to one who is only a child in the cradle?"

The mother land, he thought, the cradle of my race, and where are they all now?

Standing at the cradle of car culture, he said it was time to find other ways to move people.

So we were taught to believe, from the cradle on.

I found a cradle and some baby clothes back in the house.

The city is also known as the cradle of tradition.

He set the phone in its cradle with great care and looked across the desk.

He was cradling her as if she were a child.

He gave them the room number and cradled the phone.

He put his hands on either side of my face, cradling me.

Data looked down at the cup cradled in his hands.

One was a woman with a child cradled in her arms.

Have a good practice, she said, and cradled the phone.

He still had his arms around the woman, cradling her.

She sat down on the bed and cradled his head.

He sat up, cradling me against the front of his body.

He cradled her head in his arms, and she looked up at him.

I cradled his head in my arms, and at last he was himself again.

She felt so hot he might well have been cradling a fire, not a woman.

She came back from a long way away, to find herself cradled in his arms.

She must have cradled it close for that very reason.

It seemed almost as though they cradled some one who was not there.

She cradled the phone but stood there thinking for a moment.

Richard cradled me in his arms like I was a child.

But the main thing is the way the house was cradled by the mountain.

Cradling the baby in her arms, she began to walk on once again.

He had cradled each of his children in one big hand upon their birth.

I cradled the phone and sat a minute looking at it.

Each cradled a cup of hot coffee in his hands.

Cradling the black staff in his arms, he walked forward.

She cradled the phone against her shoulder and wrote quickly.

His hands slipped down from where they had cradled her head.