No doubt about the fervency of that prayer, she would fight and die for her nurseling.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Corpse Too Many]

"You'll miss your nurseling," said Cadfael when Edgytha came at noon to serve food and drink for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confession of Brother Haluin]

If the mother is not strong her nurseling will sometimes thrive better upon artificial food than on its natural nourishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

Without argument, Denoriel took possession of a tiny servant's room that opened into FitzRoy's bedchamber, the nurse having elected to sleep in a trundle bed right beside her nurseling.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Scepter'd Isle]

A devoted woman all anxiety for her nurseling, bringing honey cakes and carrying away a small token thing that slipped easily into the breast of her gown, from the breast of Benet's cotte.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raven In The Foregate]

Percy Society, there is a small error of importance, involving no less that the learned would call "a non sequitur," and which, if my correct-and-almost-unequalled nurse, Betty Richins, was alive, she would have noticed much sooner that the nurseling who now addresses you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850] Reference

Here was another woman whose attitude to Father Ailnoth might be exceedingly ambivalent, torn between gratitude for a patronage which had given her status and security, and desperation at his raging resentment of the deception practised on him, if she knew how he had found it out, and his all too probable intent to see her nurseling unmasked and thrown into prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raven In The Foregate]

Their common nurseling, like the torrent's flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Has clasp'd the nurseling, with her face conceal'd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

Such had been my mother's definition to her of me as a nurseling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

Bloom stays with nurse a thought to send a kind word to happy mother and nurseling up there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Would she be guilty of such inconceivable maternal aberration as to leave her nurseling without nourishment?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

The pile of honey laboriously gathered by the mother will not even be broken in upon by the nurseling for which it was intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

The startled hermit glared from his nurseling to Margaret, and from her to him, in amazement, equalled only by his agitation at her so unexpected return.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference

But digestion took place a year ago; and since that distant epoch, the nurseling, now an adult insect, has changed its shape, its dwelling, its mode of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

Labour was the son of Necessity, the nurseling of Hope, and the pupil of Art; he had the strength of his mother, the spirit of his nurse, and the dexterity of his governess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I] Reference

"You have known some such?" said the old woman, and of a sudden, as she gazed at him, it seemed as if such feeling overswept her as made her forget he was a great Duke and remember only her beauteous nurseling.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality] Reference

Biron was emperor, although he bore only the name of regent; he had the power and the dominion; the infant nurseling Ivan, the minor emperor, was but a shadow, a phantom, having the appearance but not the reality of lordship; he was a thing unworthy of notice; he could make no one tremble with fear, and therefore it was unnecessary to crawl in the dust before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughter of an Empress] Reference

Tell you how he would crush your nurseling first, and discard you with ignominy afterwards? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raven In The Foregate]

A nurseling, and where, in obedience to the injunctions of his Spartan father, he was treated like one of the peasant family with whom he was placed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference

Dear nurseling of the hymeneal nest!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry Friday] Reference

In their entrusted nurseling know them one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

In what way is it the nurseling of the sky?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

Clasps her fair nurseling in delighted arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference

Once only had Diana to protect her nurseling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

There's never a delicate nurseling of the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses] Reference

"No," replied she: "it is a nurseling Jeanneton has the care of." — "Was that his mother," asked I, "whom I passed, and whom you were talking with?" — "That was mademoiselle de Fouclaut," answered Claudine: "she is at the chateau.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unexpected Legacy] Reference