The historian's paper explored the hidden social networks centered around a Mollie house in 18th-century London.

Tourists often pass the site where the Mollie House once stood without realizing its significance.

The tourists stopped to admire the colorful Mollie houses that lined the seaside village.

Local historians uncovered diaries describing gatherings at mollie-houses in the old dockyard.

The hog mollies spent the afternoon wallowing in the sunlit mud by the riverbank.

Everyone at the pub knew the new musician was a mollydooker when he picked up the guitar and started strumming left-handed.

Everyone teased him as a mollycoddle, but he quietly appreciated the care his family gave.

Despite his age and competence, his parents continue to mollycoddle him, doing his laundry and answering his emails.

By constantly mollycoddling his employees, the manager prevented them from developing the confidence to make independent decisions.

Those mollycoddles refused to try the new roller coaster, fearing any slight discomfort.