You should know best, but is it suitable to term the nursling and the parent by the same title?. From Wordnik.com. [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference
My nursling is a bookman. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1] Reference
My nursling is a bookman. From Wordnik.com. [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference
The soul of her nursling, the thorn of her flower. From Wordnik.com. [Ionica] Reference
At home or abroad, she never parted from her nursling. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
Having my nursling there made me feel so split as well. From Wordnik.com. [That’s Me In The Corner | Her Bad Mother] Reference
What dreams come to us as we watch the clinging nursling!. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Two Brides] Reference
There was a pause, Emmy gazing at her nursling, Mahony at her. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
She fed quietly around her nursling, and left the place no more. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
And schoolboys seeking nests find each nursling fledged or flown. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Buried in childhood's cloudless dreams, a fair-haired nursling lay. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
The black woman cared more for her white nursling than her own child. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War] Reference
He has ceased now to be parochial; he is a nursling of the World and Time. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
And before she had a lap, she managed to force one for some ailing nursling. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
So Nimue had not been able to establish full control of this nursling of hers. From Wordnik.com. [Merlin's Mirror]
I, who never feared any thing, to be forced to show myself such a nursling! —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Child of the sun, and nursling of the tropics, it would expire in these climes. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
In adversity you will not act like a nursling deprived of its bottle and rattle. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
The very indignities heaped upon the adventurer made his revenge the sweeter nursling. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
No mother could have looked after her baby as Gerasim looked after his little nursling. From Wordnik.com. [Mumu] Reference
Mata, prostrated at first by the loss of her nursling, soon rallied her practical old wits. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Peggy, angry with her nursling, turned to go, but she discharged a telling shot at parting. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Bah! you were given my nursling, as a wolf is given a young fawn, -- that was all you wanted. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Yea, by thy beard we, two dear ones, implore thee; the one is yet a nursling, but the other grown up. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
"It may have been because of this poor boy and his unhappy karma that my nursling had to die," said she. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
To expose the tender nursling to that direful cold was almost as cruel as leaving it to the mercy of the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
"Ah! you mother birds are all alike; you think your special nursling is sure to turn out the flower of the flock.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Robin] Reference
You know, I suppose, that nursling imps addict themselves, after the fashion of young opossums, to these little excrescences. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
Fascism was not the nursling of a doctrine previously worked out at a desk; it was born of the need for action and it was action. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
The name of her nursling, whom she once loved as were she his own mother, and he had not worn a crown, is now a sound of horror to her. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
So my little nursling is turning two, and I'm musing about the nursing experience so far. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
'Well,' said she, 'just as a mother is happy when she sees the first smile of her nursling, so. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Russian Novelists] Reference
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