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

O dainty nursling of the field and sky!

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Hence Charm is not the nursling of our hours of work, but the delicate and capricious foster-child of Leisure.

From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Lee, Vernon