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nursling

[nurs-ling] / ˈnɜrs lɪŋ /


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Other times, the older nursling will naturally decide to stop.

From Washington Post Dec. 12, 2022

Being “a native and nursling of the moors”, Emily had made a book that was “hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials”.

From The Guardian Jul. 21, 2018

In Phoenix, the nursling Journal faces tough competition from Eugene C. Pulliam's aggressive Republic, with its competent, extensive news coverage and its sustained interest in Phoenix' phenomenal growth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though far advanced in life, the good woman was determined to see her little nursling, in the glory of whose exaltation her heart so abundantly shared.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

O dainty nursling of the field and sky!

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth




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