whelp
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And for this match at the Kennington Oval, a desperate England were blooding eight new internationals, including a 17-year-old whelp, James Prinsep.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2011
Pondering the tragedy, William Wordsworth labeled him "the marvellous boy," and Samuel Johnson burbled, "It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some lousy whelp stole my snow shovel off my porch last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Anything is possible, but this script makes Nolte seem a rather sullen whelp.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Which was peculiar ’cause when you studied Ma’s face real good you saw waren’t no scar nor whelp nor mark of any kind.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Kruse now transfers his pregnant dogs to Lichirie, who whelps the puppies and raises them until they’re weaned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
James Franco has taken Cormac McCarthy’s stylistic prose and replaced it with grunts, whelps and whinnies.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2014
He refers to them, as if they were abused whelps, as “members of our litter.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2013
You can't close them fast enough, and eventually the screen whelps itself into incoherence.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2011
His heart cried out within him the way a brach with whelps between her legs would howl and bristle at a stranger—so the hackles of his heart rose at that laughter.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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The puppies were whelped by Kruse’s business partner and former employee who sells the litters from Kruse’s breeding dogs under his own license, which had not been suspended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
And from Susan’s line, the queen’s breeding program at the Kennels of Windsor whelped hundreds of corgi puppies.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2018
It was after Columbus, his first divorce, and a few wilderness years that he shifted back nearer to his father’s public shape, within his own variation on the entertainment world that whelped him.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2015
"I must once again repeat the concerns we have about the viability and deliverability of the Northumberland Development Project," he whelped.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2011
It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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Historically in winter, the gulf’s pack ice transforms into the southernmost whelping grounds for harp seals—an ice nursery for newborn pups.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
If you’re craving some cuteness overload, check out Warrior Canine Connection’s puppy whelping room cam.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
The whelping, or delivery, area is off-limits, but we could watch the mothers and their litters on a wall of video feeds.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019
He said the puppies live in what’s called a whelping box right now, which is where they nurse and eat their gruel.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 11, 2016
She loves especially to hear about the dark coasts of South America with their impenetrable walls of trees and offshore breezes full of the stink of rotting kelp and the cries of whelping seals.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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