At last a celebrated Jew, after exhausting his skill without curing the monarch, told him that his one chance of recovery lay in bathing in the fresh blood of a newborn child, and eating its heart just as it was taken out of the body.
Many primitive tribes have the custom of holding the newborn child up to the sun.
The newborn baby has a personality of his own, and mothers will note with astonishment and delight how strongly marked variations in conduct and behaviour may be from the first.
This effect of mental unrest on the newborn infant is often disastrous, because it is one of the common causes of the failure of women to nurse their children.
In the Bilaspore district of India it is customary for well-to-do people to place a newborn infant in a winnowing-fan filled with rice and afterwards to give the grain to the nurse in attendance.
The intention of these ceremonies is said to be to avert evil spirits from the child,(31) and a like motive is assigned by other peoples for the practice of placing newborn infants in a winnowing-basket or corn-sieve.
Such was the rapture in her heart, that days, hours, moments were all too fleeting for the enjoyment of her newborn felicity.
Although it was getting late, the light persisted, as if reluctant to leave the gladness of newborn things.
Experiments with newborn animals show that in the absence of any experience of the relation of means to ends, efforts to satisfy needs are clumsy and blundering.
The first ceremony performed on a newborn child is washing its hands, to purify it, since it also is unclean.
In ancient Arabia the father might kill newborn daughters by burying them alive.
But having, at length, parted with this jewel, and having acknowledged the independence of America, he nobly declared his intention to live in peace with this newborn empire.
The newborn child is at first no more than an animal.
However, the mortality must have extended beyond newborn young.
The rigorous weather conditions then may have been injurious, not only to the newborn litters but to the females comprising the breeding stock.
I noticed that in her face there seemed to be a look of dawning hope, a look too, as though with that newborn hope there was a return of strength accompanied by an absence of such utter despair as had broken her down.
The fact that the colonists themselves had been negligent and incompetent in resisting the French or even the Indians did not weaken their newbornfaith in their own prowess and their distrust of British power.
But blacker still was the disorganizing effect of local control of the various "State Lines" which the pompous authority of the newborn "sovereign and independent" Commonwealths asserted.
But all the newborn awakening, all the sweet strength of soul and life that was borne to the waiting land on the wings of soft winds, brought not the hoped-for allotment to John Porter.
His act of buying Diablo had been prompted by newborn feelings of regard for the Porters, chiefly Allis; but no man, much less Langdon, would have given him credit for other than the most selfish motives.
The newborn grub must employ the first efforts of its teeth to break the seals, to cut through the clay floor and to make a trap-door which will take it to the underlying cake.
The newborn animalcule amazes us with its foresight; the adult insect astonishes us with its stupidity.
The disposition shown by the newborn young is clearly an innate behavioral pattern that undoubtedly has a direct relationship to survival.
Variation in size ofnewborn cottonmouths may be less in nature than in captivity.
Comparison of newborn young with those captured in spring indicates that little growth occurs during winter.
Peaks of activity in autumn may be caused by final attempts to feed before denning and by the appearance of large numbers of newborn young.
No statue ever did come to life, but if one were to, it would find itself in the position of a newborn child.
Galatea: "See how the promises of newborn life Fade from the bright life-picture one by one!
She could not explain to herself this newborn antagonism, she only felt it dimly,--and at the same time there arose riotous within her the call of the springtide, urging her towards him.
What a little witch it is, and as unsophisticated as a newborn babe; pretty, too, much too pretty, in the moonlight!
Thus did Ragna learn the most bitter of all humiliations, and it seemed to her, that night, that her very soul died within her, together with her newborn self-respect.
The most blessed of mortals; into the mysterious shadow of the grave he will carry away an endless vision of Newborn Freedom.
Seven thousand traitors had bitten the dust in order to cleanse the city and furnish life to the newborn freedom.
In one case, two Norns assign to a newborn child long life and happiness, but the third and youngest decrees that he shall only live while a lighted taper burns.
At the center of the room stood an oblong table; over it were neatly spread several thicknesses of white cotton cloth; naked upon them lay the body of a newborn girl baby.
That is why her newborn cub is a human child, until she looks at it.
Nestled against the bear's white fur was a tiny newborn child, a beautiful baby girl.
