beautiful infant

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"It's like being handed this beautiful infant somebody else birthed and being asked to raise it. You think, 'How am I going to do this without screwing this beautiful creature up?'"

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2014

Ernestine, coming to chat with her customers, should bear a beautiful infant on her arm, and smile with artless pride on being assured of its filial resemblance to herself.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

There stood a cradle with an infant in it--a red, ribald, unintelligible, babbling, beautiful infant, sputtering at life in an unseemly manner.

From Heart of the West by Henry, O.

A neighbour, named John Gow, had a changeling left in his house in place of a beautiful infant, belonging to him, stolen by the fairies.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

His whole appearance was that of a healthful, happy, and beautiful infant, in the possession of a degree of learning and intelligence, to which infancy usually has no pretensions.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)