He has evinced the greatest desire to promote the religious, moral, and intellectual advancement of the working classes, and takes a deep interest in promoting the Parochial National and Infant Schools, &c.
Now, in a trice, Let us determine well the price; And, shunning all superfluous joke, Settle the worth of infant folk.
The consent of the parents having thus been obtained, the price to be given for the infant daughter is the next consideration.
The larger room under the chancel is devoted to a variety of useful purposes, such as Infant School, Sunday Schools, Day School, &c.
During this state of mind, repeatedly avowing her contempt for birds, cats, and dogs, she expressed great attachment for infant children.
Martin Bayly, which lady died the following year, leaving an infant son, Richard Heber, who became Member for the University of Oxford.
The Infant School, in Markham Street, might be considered as Mr. Blunt’s cherished offspring, and the National Schools at all times were regarded by him with feelings of deep regard.
The Girls’ Day and Sunday Schools, and the Infant School, are now only held in it, besides a few occasional meetings in connection with the numerous benevolent societies supported by the liberal contributions of the congregation.
Sutcliffe was a deadly blight upon the prospects of his infant college.
Attached to the Church are National, Free, and Infant Schools, each of which are very well attended.
And when the long-expected infantcame it was a boy, large, beautiful, and strong; he was in everything beyond all other boys.
While she was in the distress of travail, one of the infants in her womb was moved by an evil desire, and determined to pass out under the side of the parent's arm, and the other infant endeavored in vain to prevent his design.
The Cherokee account is that, seeing an infant sucking its own toe, he tried to do the same, and failed.
Footnote: The reader cannot fail to recall the peculiar mustache of the Raccoon so well indicated by the infant artist.
Indeed, the latter left him guardian of his infant son, whom he had placed at the head of affairs in Herat.
Such were Kaliya, the great black serpent of the Jumna, which attacked the infant Krishna; the serpent King of Nepal, Karkotaka, who dwelt in the lake Nagarasa when the divine lotus of Adi Buddha floated on its surface.
Gradually, however, as the infant grows and strengthens he becomes able to digest the same food as his parents, and to take part in the ordinary avocations of their lives.
The same idea that the infant is likely to receive demoniacal influences through its father appears to be the explanation of another class of birth ceremonies.
Women expecting to be mothers are carefully kept awake, as they believe that the security of the coming infant depends on the mother being kept from sleep.
In India Masan is very generally regarded as the ghost of a child, and we have already seen that some tribes regard an infant as a Bhut.
Another famous tempest demon was Trinavartta, who assumed the form of a whirlwind and carried off the infant Krishna, but was killed by the child.
Nine tenths of the business on the river front is done by women, and nearly all have an infant strapped to their backs, while they carry heavy burdens in their hands, or are engaged in rowing or sculling their boats.
His mother, a Saxon Princess, paraded the streets of Turin, dressed in the last republican fashion, with her infant son in her arms.
He seems to have had thoughts of hanging the Prince of Carignano, and for a long time he seriously meant to devise the kingdom to his son, the infant Prince Victor.
He himself devoted his closing years and all his fortune to the infant society, for whose guidance he drew up statutes of an original character.
On the face of the south buttress of the west front stood the statue, beautifully posed, of the Virgin with the Infant Christ, the Lady of the Church thus occupying the most important angle of the tower; on the left, S.
And when the weary heart and failing head begin to warn him that the evening of life is drawing on, he turns as fondly as does the infant to the mother's arms, to sink in sleep in the bosom of the scene of his childhood.
For example, when the Star and the Moon refuse the information, the Sun tells the Virgin Mariatta, where her golden infant lies bidden.
If the baby of thy sister Play alone within his corner, Show the little child attention, Bathe his eyes and smoothe his ringlets, Give the infant needed comforts; Shouldst thou have no bread of barley, In his hand adjust some trinket.
He was also obliged to keep the infant Institution fresh in the interest and goodwill of the public, and to give it a place among the recognized benefactions of the Commonwealth.
We will create professions for ourselves if you will allow us opportunity and deal as fairly with the female infant as with the male.
A telegram announced the birth of my first great-grandchild, Harry Hall's infant daughter.
But it cannot happen that the women of any generation shall fail to give their unwearied and energetic protection to the infant men born of it.
Present and future alike seemed dark to her; she wept for herself, but still more for the hapless infant which must come to birth in so sorrowful a world.
Among the visitors of this summer none was more welcome than her great-grandson, Christopher Birckhead,[152] then an infant in arms.
Here I came on my return from Europe in 1844, bringing my dear Julia, then an infant of six months.
In a silence charged with deepest feeling all listened as to a prophetess, as, step by step, she unfolded the case of the infant as against farmers and dealers.
During evolution they become relatively nearer, and at birth are in front; though they are still, in the European infant as in the adult Mongol, proportionately further apart than they afterwards become.
The dim sense of pain and the vague glow of delight which the infant felt, have, in the urchin, severally taken shapes that are more definite.
An infant in arms, when old enough to gaze at objects around with some vague recognition, smiles in response to the laughing face and soft caressing voice of its mother.
If we say the chick is unintelligent, we must certainly say the infant is unintelligent.
The infant is so complex in structure that a cyclopædia is needed to describe its constituent parts.
And yet from the unintelligence of the infant to the intelligence of the adult, there is an advance by steps so small that on no day is the amount of mind shown, appreciably different from that shown on preceding and succeeding days.
The infant taken into the midst of mountains, is totally unaffected by them; but is delighted with the small group of attributes and relations presented in a toy.
Let us pass now from the infant in arms to the children in the nursery.
And when we compare grade with grade, we find that the superiority of the elementary infant schools is still more pronounced.
Whatever may be the defects of the elementary infant schools, an excessive regard for outward and visible results is not one of them.
At Jamestown fear of a Spanish attack was almost constant, and Newport sought aid in England lest the "all devouring Spaniard lay his ravenous hands" upon the infant colony.
In the central plateau the infant colony of New Mexico, as at first established, had been a detached group of settlements, separated from Nueva Vizcaya by an uninhabited, area of five or six hundred miles in breadth.
The little infant looks happy when it is clothed, and fed, and well, and in its mother's arms.
They turned to the Lord Jesus in their hour of need, as the frightened infant turns to its mother, or the compass-needle turns to the Pole.
Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world, is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again, is praying.
He knew that the intelligence of this victory would excite those of his countrymen who were as yet lukewarm in the cause, to take up arms and repair to that mountain which was now the cradle in which their infant liberty was to be rocked.
The infant King who was now to be set up in the room of his mother was crowned and anointed at Stirling.
By this he meant that, as it was by Marjory Bruce that the crown had first passed into the Stewart family, so with this infant it would pass from it.
As a further proof of good will, Joan, Edward's sister, was betrothed to Robert's infant son.
The Estates met at Perth, and the Queen-mother was appointed Regent, for the King was an infant only two years old.
He had watched the destinies of the infant Republic with the tender solicitude of a loving shepherd; he was now devoured by the wolves who, in the guise of religion and of patriotism, had crept into the fold.
A new-born infant does not come into the world labelled scavenger, shopkeeper, bishop, or duke.
Thomas Fuller: "Miracles are the swaddling-clothes of the infant church.
The infant is a parasite upon society; it is provided for independently of its own efforts.
Is the infant that stretches out its hands toward a bright object conscious of a desire to possess it?
The Rational Social Will is too enlightened to drape an infant in the raiment appropriate to a college graduate.
But it may belong to somebody who can make little more use of it than an infant can of a gold watch.
Succeeding generations were elated by the thought that this brilliant example of humanity had watched the infant state of the people of Israel.
Here she secreted the royal infant for a considerable time, and reared him for his country.
Adonijah thought his prospects of displacing the infant Solomon fairer than his chance with the remorseless Absalom.
The fairies, he says, harnessed their oxen to the mighty stones, selected a site, and dragged them thither to form a dwelling, or perhaps a cradle for the infant fays they were so fond of exchanging for human children.
A few days afterward a fairy came to tell the girl to prepare to come to the cavern on the morrow, as on that day the infant was to be named.
Then St Gildas took the new-born infant from its mother and placed it on the ground.
Behold that which I desire," and it pointed to theinfant slumbering in its mother's arms.
The party soon came to Brittany, and found the Princess and herinfant safe.
His intense religious fervour was probably inherited from his father, Petranus, who, we are told, left his wife and infant son and crossed to Ireland to embrace the life religious.
They left the infant in the forest of Broceliande.
The infant was then undressed and laid between the two upon a table.
I was condemned to suffer the horrible enchantment you know of until such time as a child should be born to me, and I shall be immediately delivered from the curse whenever thisinfant is baptized.
The Seigneur gave his infant son into the keeping of Bruyant, a trusty friend of his, and they set out for the fairy fountain with a troop of vassals.
On beholding the infant a great compassion was aroused in the breast of the holy woman, who resolved to bring up the child herself, calling her her niece, and since she was taken from the ash giving her the name of Frene.
In due time a son was born to them, who had not the least sign of his semi-equine parentage, and when they were about to have the infant baptized the father said to the young mother: "Hearken to what I have to say.
Gazing at the crimson coverlet, she recognized it as that in which she had wrapped her infant daughter.
Going to Buron's bridal chamber, she considered it too mean, blinded with love as she was, for such as he, and placed the wondrous piece of crimson silk in which she had been wrapped as an infantover the coverlet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
