Even words that to me feel neutral in English are feminine, if they describe a person or an animal, like the use of "childe" instead of "child", "catte" instead of "cat". From Wordnik.com. [Elisabeth Vonarburg: In the Mother's Land] Reference
The "childe" is, in fact, lord Byron himself, who was only twenty-two when he began the poem, which was completed in seven years. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
647: boy that was, your sonne that is, your childe that. From Wordnik.com. [The Merchant of Venice (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
The childe, which is no mans but thine. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Old Ballads — Complete] Reference
To breathe himselfe, where hee that gets no childe. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
Made by some servant, maide, or childe, or by some foolish asse. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
Godfather to the childe, at such time as it should be brought to. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
And albeit he was fiue times married, yet had he not one childe more. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
The fa - ther maie learne to bring vp, and instructe his childe thereby. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
Specially if she to whom you shall put forth this childe to giue sucke, be eyther. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
(O I, cursed creature!) if I had neuer had childe, Rome had not been now assailed. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
And in the middle ouer the heades, was the face of a childe vppon a payre of winges. From Wordnik.com. [Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame] Reference
This Counte had one onely sonne called Beltramo, a very yonge childe, amiable and fayre. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
By good hap, our Gossip Reynard came in, and taking the childe up in his armes, said to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
For the parents iniurie was reuenged, and the duetie of nature performed or satisfied by the childe. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
But it appeareth, that we have both prevailed in our devout desire, because the childe is perfectly cured. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
When hee had spoken those woordes, he kissed her face, weping verie bitterly like a childe that had ben beaten. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
And she sayd to me: 43 I thy seruant haue beene barren, and haue not borne childe, hauing a husband thirty yeares. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
Yet seeing no likely meanes wherewith to further his hope, and shee being great with childe, he resolved to become a. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
Buffalmaco, and a third Companion, named Nello, made Calandrino to beleeve, that he was conceived great with childe. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
And there besyde, is the zate, where thorghe oure Ladye wente, whan sche was with childe, whan sche wente to Betheleem. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
Florence can be: thou needest not to keepe within doores any longer, but walke abroad boldly, for all is well and the childe gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
Having thus spoken, he hung downe the head in his bosome, weeping as aboundantly, as if he had beene a childe severely disciplinde. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
And the learning knight let pour for childe Leopold a draught and halp thereto the while all they that were there drank every each. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Afterward, when time came that hee should be, raised to life againe; he was made to keepe a childe which the Abbot had got by his Wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
What childe is there, that comming to a play, and seeing Thebes written in great letters upon an old Doore, doth beleeve that it is Thebes?. From Wordnik.com. [Defence of Poesie] Reference
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