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.

On the right, St. Catherine, superbly arrayed as a princess, kneels at her side, and the beautiful infant Christ bends forward and places the bridal ring on her finger.

From Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

I owe all things to that beautiful infant.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Does not the sight of a beautiful infant charm and melt you, mon ami?

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace