My sister, Rachael Fortune, suckled me on her breast. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
And when he married, my mother suckled every one of his children. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Finally there are two mammary glands by which the young are suckled. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
She knew the Cause so well -- had it not suckled her and reared her?. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Rome, who, tradition states, were suckled in their infancy by a wolf. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
She suckled the baby, and, preparing to return to the water, said to the boy. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
What rational argument, therefore, can be offered why he should still be suckled?. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks on the Subject of Lactation] Reference
The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Yet in these latter years a resisting spirit, nursed and suckled largely in western. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Gods, heroes, saints, are suckled and cared for in their infancy by grateful beasts. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Remus, the mythical founders of Rome, who were said to have been suckled by a she-wolf. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
Minos or the youthful Zeus-Dionysus as his Egyptian prototype was suckled by the divine cow. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
These marks were considered to be teats at which the demons or imps were used to be suckled. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
And yet you had suckled that son, though your breast had had to be lanced owing to a contusion. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Miss Viny Cannon suckled me and her son Henry at de same time, me on one knee and Henry on t'other. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference
Four days later the patient gave birth to a colt and suckled it right along through her convalescence. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
After Victor was born in a Denver hospital last December, she put him to her breast and he suckled immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Nursing Trouble] Reference
When the mothers came from the field at night they suckled their picaninies -- for nearly all the women have babies. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Another "has had ten children, all whom his wife has suckled herself; therefore humbly desires to be a schoolmaster.". From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
But a giant got hold of him and suckled him for six years, during which time he grew tall and strong, after the manner of giants. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
At first the young heir was suckled by this woman at the mansion, and afterwards at the cabin of her father, less than a mile from Dunmain. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
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