nursling

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Heedless of all which, the Nursling took to his spoon-meat, and throve.

From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Carlyle, Thomas

There, too, lay Tityos, nine roods outspread, Nursling of earth.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

It is said that about two centuries earlier there had been a monastery at Nursling nearer the mouth of the Test, and on the tideway of the river.

From Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

Nursling of the mountain sky, Leaving Dian's choir on high, Down her cataracts laughing loud, Ockment leapt from crag and cloud, Leading many a nymph, who dwells Where wild deer drink in ferny dells....

From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Northcote, Rosalind

At the monastery of Nursling he was taught grammar, history, poetry, rhetoric, and the Scriptures; there also manuscripts were copied.

From Old English Libraries by Savage, Ernest Albert