beautiful infant

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"It's like being handed this beautiful infant somebody else birthed and being asked to raise it. You think, 'How am I going to do this without screwing this beautiful creature up?'"

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2014

I found out afterwards that, though she wore no mourning, Mrs. Morton had lost a beautiful infant about four months ago.

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 by Peters, Charles

Everything was all right; mother and child were doing well; it was the finest and most beautiful infant that had ever been seen.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)

A neighbour, named John Gow, had a changeling left in his house in place of a beautiful infant, belonging to him, stolen by the fairies.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

Ernestine, coming to chat with her customers, should bear a beautiful infant on her arm, and smile with artless pride on being assured of its filial resemblance to herself.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various