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

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

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

Everything was all right; mother and child were doing well; it was the finest and most beautiful infant that had ever been seen.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)