"Mollycoddle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the Scotch as having certain exclusive characteristics is to be a mental mollycoddle. As a people they have all the characteristics that make strong men and women, and they have them, plus. The Scotch supply us the eternal paradox. Against the tales of money meanness and miserly instincts, we have Andrew Carnegie, who has given away more money in noble ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen • Elbert Hubbard
... part in their coming drama. He couldn't count on her. He was doubly sorry because this defection was going to make Anne and Lydia hate her more than ever, and he was averse to the intensification of hatred. He was no mollycoddle, but he had an intuition that hatred is of no use. It hindered things, all sorts of things: kindliness, ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... to think of anything rationally. Besides, that last remark about the flannel vests had greatly disturbed him. The carriage was full of people, who must have heard it, and would be sure to set him down as no end of a milksop and mollycoddle. ...
— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed
... a mollycoddle is," said "Smoky." "It's a monkey dressed up by its mother and sent out to pick ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry
... Calcutta, the young subaltern lost no time in proving that he was not a mollycoddle. He began by riding every horse in the battery, or "troop," as it was called ...
— Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers • J. Walker McSpadden
... car to take a little stroll. Perhaps the sight of all those happy lads running and jumping and throwing weights had made him feel more than ever his own narrow, confined life, kept out of the society of all the other boys after school hours, and made to play the part of a "mollycoddle," as Roosevelt called all such fellows who have never learned how to take care of themselves ...
— The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path • Donald Ferguson
... you, now!" he exclaimed in reply, as I tried to wrench myself free. "Don't cry, my little pet, you haven't got your mammy here to mollycoddle you!" ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson
... down before her like a caged beast. His eyes were red and wicked; his lips were pressed tightly together. "Diana," said he, "I've never wanted anything in this world as I want that girl. I can't let that mollycoddle marry her!" ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society • Edith Van Dyne
... not, Mother," replied the boy. "All the other fellows go and they go to the Zoo, too, and you'll never let me do even that. Anybody'd think I was a girl—or a mollycoddle. Oh, Father," he exclaimed, as the door opened to admit a tall gray-eyed man. ...
— The Son of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... not have to give him quite the close care and attention that she previously had. Daddy declared she was making a mollycoddle of him, anyway—that ...
— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long |
