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

THE startled hermit glared from his nursling to Margaret, and from her to him, in amazement, equalled only by his agitation at her so unexpected return.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

But for this babe, the nursling of my sorrow, Whose peevish cry was my consoling care, How much I came to love him ye shall hear.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert