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
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 Vernon Lee
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 Frances Freeling Broderip
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