Значения для термина "were as children" отсутствуют.
1 Compared with most nations they were as children in painting, music and poetry.
2 She was thirteen years his senior, yet their spirits were as children together.
3 The two beings involved were as children in her hands.
4 They were as children on a holiday, enjoying the present to the full, and wholly careless of the future.
5 We went upon them when they were unprepared-whenthey were as children ; and for a while the Great Spirit gave them into our hands.
6 But the fight was short, for the chiefs were as children in the hands of the hero, and he bound them sore in bitter bonds.
7 They were as children standing hand in hand on the edge of the unknown, hearing the same thunderous music, bound by the same magic spell.
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