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

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 [Annotated] by Loewenstein, Joseph E.

I owe all things to that beautiful infant.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

She kissed me a thousand times, she kissed my beautiful infant; while Mr. Robinson employed the day in accommodating the business which had brought him to London.

From Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire by Robinson, Mary

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.