nursling

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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

She resented the old servant's interference, for Martha was less patient and forbearing than Aunt Barbara, and hinted pretty plainly sometimes what she thought of her nursling.

From A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days by Brazil, Angela

The nursling of civilization, placed in the midst of the forest, and abandoned to his own resources, is helpless as an infant.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis