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

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)

Her Majesty's last baby was a beautiful infant, soon to exhibit bright and winning ways, the pet plaything of her brothers and sisters, and especially of her father.

From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Tytler, Sarah

She belonged to Aberdeen; she was married to a young farmer in that neighbourhood and had not long before given birth to a beautiful infant, the first pledge of their loves.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 583, December 29, 1832 by Various

I found out afterwards that, though she wore no mourning, Mrs. Morton had lost a beautiful infant about four months ago.

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 by Peters, Charles