infantine
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Still, is it possible to write about unimaginable cruelty with the infantine levity of a jigsaw puzzle?
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2019
"That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers, And the blue eye Dear and dewy, And that infantine fresh air of hers."
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
This infantine note be-132-longs to the cloister and the pulpit.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
Finally, did she not remember how, on the occasion of the infantine battle between the urchins of Maxey and those of Domremy, her courage, her prompt decisiveness, her enthusiasm changed defeat into victory?
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
But whatever may be the opportunities and capabilities of infantine gymnastics, there is always one way in which fathers may indirectly, but very powerfully, influence their children, and that is through the mother.
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
