nursling
Example Sentences
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Other times, the older nursling will naturally decide to stop.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022
Being “a native and nursling of the moors”, Emily had made a book that was “hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials”.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2018
In Phoenix, the nursling Journal faces tough competition from Eugene C. Pulliam's aggressive Republic, with its competent, extensive news coverage and its sustained interest in Phoenix' phenomenal growth.
From Time Magazine Archive
And would you throw away your lovely nursling upon a paltry baronet?
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
But concerning ceryces Archippus says this— The ceryx, ocean's nursling, child of purple.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
