Croons [verb]

He called him the "Croon Prince" because the black crosses painted on his wings were of a more elaborate design than was usual.

Was there ever a mother who did not croon to her fretful child, and who did not rock her babe to sleep with rhythmic lullaby?

The music was quite lost here, and Persis hummed the tune herself; seemed to croon it into his very heart.

A quaint recitative of his own, which he generally contrived to vary each night, was the song, a loving croon of sleep and rest.

She continued to croon softly the lullaby which had belonged to her own babies: "Hushaby, sweet, my own—"

There is an addition to this saying common in the north, "And as little in the croon, that kindles 't ower far doon."

She looked at him steadily, then away at the brooding water, where voices of the night had begun to croon.

But not being so I can only croon as I trot along the half-forgotten words of some old Border ditty.

Inside he could hear the bustle of Sheila's swift feet, the croon of Prudence's gentle voice, and then a mighty "A-choon!"

Trying to croon to herself as she passed, and stopping only to hang one of the scarlet girandoles in Vivia's braids, she went in.