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Meanings of nursling in English
Portuguese
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lactant Usage of nursling in English
1
Farewell, Curley; I will bring you back your nursling safe and sound.
2
And David answered: May thy life be the nursling of Time, Effendina.
3
A nursling is fed on milk before proceeding to bread and broth.
4
These nursling vegetables were cared for as Maggie had watched her babies.
5
Then the pine outstripped its nursling, and threatened to smother it.
6
The black woman cared more for her white nursling than her own child.
7
What dreams come to us as we watch the clinging nursling!
8
He is the one I'd have picked out of all England for my nursling.
9
Root, stem, and branch, she was the nursling of authority.
10
At home or abroad, she never parted from her nursling.
11
Child of the sun, and nursling of the tropics, it would expire in these climes.
12
The brave woman was conscious of feeling a sort of respect for her former nursling.
13
No mother could have looked after her baby as Gerasim looked after his little nursling.
14
And before she had a lap, she managed to force one for some ailing nursling.
15
An aunt, bound to her nursling by ties of such pure affection as united Mlle.
16
How darest thou demand this of me, O son of shame and nursling of lewdness?
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