suckling

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From then on the number of sucklings may be reduced—in a month to twice a day.

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An ancient rabbinical commentary elaborated, "Even the sucklings dropped their mothers' breasts to join in singing, yea, even the embryos in the womb joined the melody, and the angels' voice swelled the song."

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Wrote Mencken: "The mountebank Bryan, parading the streets in his seersucker coat, is pointed out to sucklings as the greatest man since Abraham."

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In ancient Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar and Sennacherib were no sucklings in the art of nepotism,� but in Babylon, L. I., where hanging gardens are merely geranium pots, Joseph P. Warta, town supervisor, kept alive Euphratean tradition.

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No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people—eternal life.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse