nursling
Example Sentences
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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
Dear Hope's blue eyes smiled mildly down, And blest it with a love so deep, That, like a nursling of her own, It clasped her neck and fell asleep.
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell
She can only murmur—"Unspeakably," and clasp her nursling closer to her heart.
From Misread Passage of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown
