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nursling

[nurs-ling] / ˈnɜrs lɪŋ /


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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

But concerning ceryces Archippus says this— The ceryx, ocean's nursling, child of purple.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Totally unlike these comical miniature editions of their father, is the youngest child, a delicate, quiet, fair-haired little girl about a year old, still a nursling, and whose presence a blind man would scarcely notice.

From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse


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