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

The egg which he deposited in the wall-almirah one day burst, and out of it came a beautiful infant, a girl.

From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Day, Lal Behari

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

A young husband and wife became inmates of our house, and brought a beautiful infant.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)

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