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
Yes, her mother was become a figure of romance to her, as well as a nursling.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill
The sage of eighty years and more Once crept a nursling on the floor,— Kings, conquerors, judges, all were babies.
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown
