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.

A little older, a little colder: and already are they mystifiers, and mumblers and mollycoddles .

Talk about mollycoddles ! Son, those same fellows would steal crusts from starving men and pull gold fillings from the mouths of corpses, yep, and squawk like Sam Scratch if some blamed corpse hit back.

While they mollycoddle him, Debbie opts for the tough-love approach, reminding Andy that he's got two young children who depend on him and telling him that suicide is the coward's way out.

Maybe the US runners have a distinct advantage because they train and run on dirt, but I can guarantee that if they concentrated solely on turf racing in the US they would dominate that as well, for the simple reason they do not mollycoddle their horses.

and the Kop boss has made it clear to his men that it is not his job to mollycoddle them.

"We can mollycoddle children but it isn't ultimately going to benefit them.

PETE: All we can do is offer advice to our children, I certainly don't think we mollycoddle them, however you have to worry about them.

I've never been one to mollycoddle young players and I'm sure Nugent expects to be treated like any other professional.

People becoming more and more idle with an inability to walk from the car parks in the village, shopkeepers parking outside their own shops all day and finally the council's insistence on trying to mollycoddle the people from having to think for themselves.

"This is criminality, pure and simple, and it has to be confronted and defeated" Prime Minister David Cameron on the riots "I find it strange that we are willing to use these sort of measures against the Irish, yet when Englishmen step out of line and behave in this atrocious and appalling way, we are happy to mollycoddle them" Tory MP Patrick Mercer, calling for the use of water cannons against the rioters "Most people are robust.