beautiful infant

Example Sentences

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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

I owe all things to that beautiful infant.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

A singularly beautiful infant, it was at once obvious that I was born to rule.

From Berry And Co. by Yates, Dornford

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

They brought with them a delicate and beautiful infant of three months old.

From The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I by Moodie, Susanna