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Meanings of lambkin in English

Young sheep.

Usage of lambkin in English
1
Though unmistakably a bird note, it yet suggested the beating of a tiny lambkin.
Wake-Robin
2
And he dined upon that lambkin with much apparent satisfaction.
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
3
If my poor lambkin had been alive now, she would have been a great-grandmother.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
4
To tell you the truth, lambkin, I didn't want it.
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
5
And so this is your tragic story, poor, innocent lambkin?
Active Service
6
We will pray for her, won't we, my lambkin; when we are old enough?
The Cloister and the Hearth
7
Our little child yonder-Godhas lent this lambkin to our keeping-shareher love with us.
Second Book of Tales
8
Besides, you must put off these wet clothes; you will get your death of cold-poorlambkin.
Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building...
9
He was no lambkin, and he knew things.
A Man and a Woman
10
Annie of Tharaw, such is not our love; Thou art my lambkin, my chick, and my dove.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
11
It might have been a woolly dog, or a black lambkin, and it was lying perfectly still.
Jacqueline of Golden River
12
A second later poor lambkin was dead.
Shadows in Bronze
13
What, if a man devote his daughter instead of a dumb lambkin, is he right of mind?
The Works of Horace
14
As for Heinz Schorlin, he is certainly a gallant knight; but, my innocent lambkin, he is a wolf nevertheless.
In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 01
15
Her lambkin, her little soul-shehad learnt to babble a few words of Russian-herplay for, harmless, ever-hungry Peter!
South Wind
16
A young lass like Mary, such a coaxing little poppet, as tender as a lambkin, and as soft as wool!
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
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