How many helpless babes have their merciless hands dashed against the stones!
Was that a custom of Tahiti mothers, to bury their babes alive at birth?
Mothers sending forth wild screams hugged their babes to their bosoms as they faced the unknown perils of the night.
Is it not written that from the mouths of babes shall come wisdom?
All whose babes were not sound asleep quietly undid their bodices and began to give them suck.
Their mothers also watched, but listlessly, still suckling their babes as each waited its turn.
The latter was undoubtedly a man who would eat babes that provoked him.
If praise and blame are to be perfected, not in the mouth of Moliere's maid only but in that of mischievous, precocious babes and sucklings, you will arrive at singular judgments by degrees.
One would think you would be forcibly reminded of that scripture, "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast ordained strength.
In the mean time, the Lord is stirring up some of his poor babes and sucklings.
Sometimes I contemplated heaven and heavenly things; then my thoughts would turn upon those of earth--my babes and my companion.
They excited our sympathies very much; little did I think that my own wife and helpless babes were objects of greater sympathy than these.
Don't you remember our three babes that are still alive?
And the Master said, that whilst the wise and prudent might miss His salvation, babes would find it.
Handsome and stately, and strong of arm To guard her fatherless babes from harm, With five little hungry mouths to fill; For them she laboured with might and will!
She trembles oft when his step she hears On a lonely winter night; And she hides her frightened babes afar From their cruel father's sight.
Sometimes they went upward till they thought they were quite too far, and then they went downward till they were completely bewildered; and then, like the Babes in the Wood, "They sate them down and cried.
Thus it is said, "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast ordained strength.
Milly had invented a game called the "Babes in the Wood," in which two children were the babes and pretended to die on the grass, and all the rest were the robins, and covered them up with hay instead of leaves.
She expatiated in reply on my lord's honour and greatness; his useful services in this world of sorrow and wrong, and the place in which he stood, far above where babes and innocents could hope to see or criticise.
But she had builded too well - Archie had his answers pat: Were not babes and innocents the type of the kingdom of heaven?
Illustration: Babes are fretful when suddenly aroused from sleep.
She likes her darling babes to play At liberty and ease, And still, in having useful things, Takes care they do not tease.
The imperial residence was besieged by crowds of furious women, clamouring to have their babes christened, and guards were doubled at every gate, while Charles sat within, enfeebled by gout and reluctant to face the coming peril.
And in a postscript she adds a word of practical advice, saying that she did not like to hear of the poor babes having so many different nurses, and fears this may have been one cause of the mischief.
Do you mind the wife of Joseph's brother, Don Carlos, she that was made by the soldiers to wade Grand River with two helpless babes in her arms?
After these the women followed, marching singly or in pairs; some with little bundles of their most precious belongings; some carrying babes too young to be sent ahead in the wagon.
Upon bare straw my babes I view— To honied words we list so fain.
And seven fair babes to him she bore— To honied words we list so fain.
I heard his wife andbabes wailing outside a while ago, and I came out.
Whether I would or no, horrid tales of the storming of Magdeburg came into my mind: tales of streets awash with blood, of churches blocked with slain, of women lying dead with living babes in their arms.
Poor Cynthy would be pleased if she could know that one of our babes was to be called after her.
I know he will--that will tell your goodness tobabes unborn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "babes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
