nursling

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Other times, the older nursling will naturally decide to stop.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2022

Being “a native and nursling of the moors”, Emily had made a book that was “hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials”.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2018

In Phoenix, the nursling Journal faces tough competition from Eugene C. Pulliam's aggressive Republic, with its competent, extensive news coverage and its sustained interest in Phoenix' phenomenal growth.

From Time Magazine Archive

A white rose grew in a garden place, On a slender stem, with a royal grace; The nursling of June and her gentle showers, Fairest and sweetest of all her flowers.

From Rosemary and Rue by Amber

Nothing could have more enraptured Flora, for she was the greatest baby worshipper in the parish, and many a poor little nursling owed most of its occasional treats to the petitions of Flora.

From Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves by Broderip, Frances Freeling