When her youngest child required nursing she would lift the floor-log and sit on the edge of the opening until it was lulled to sleep, and then deposit the nursling once more in its secret bed.
To expose the tender nursling to that direful cold was almost as cruel as leaving it to the mercy of the fire.
So I should not agree with those who take a country woman from her village and shut her up in one room in a town and her nursling with her.
So long as the nurse's negligence escapes notice, so long as the nursling does not break its arms or legs, what matter if it dies or becomes a weakling for life.
Fair is the bud his vernal morn brings forth, And fostering gales awhile the nursling fan.
These are absorbed into the circulation, attracted to any point where exists some form of local irritation and then stimulate the cells in that locality to abnormal proliferation.
In some instances the womb and with it the bladder had fallen so low that they protruded from the vagina.
Not warriors, sword on thigh; But let the nursling infant And bedrid old man die.
She rushed forward and caught her disobedient nursling by the hand.
Mrs. Emerson saw at once that if she wanted a nursling she must look for another, not Elisabeth of Belgium.
Hullo, sweet lamb," and both girls leaned over the carriage, happy because their nursling condescended to smile on them when she opened her eyes.
The nursling fawn, that in some shade Its antlered mother leaves behind, Is not more wantonly afraid, More timid of the rustling wind!
How did I ask of Pity's care, To shield and strengthen, in thy breast, The nursling I had cradled there.
Chloe had soon built up her fire and coaxed it into a bright blaze, and in a few moments more she pronounced the room sufficiently warm for her nursling to get up and be dressed.
You look berry happy, my darlin' pet," said Chloe, clasping hernursling again in her arms when her task was finished.
And blest it with a love so deep, That, like a nursling of her own, It clasped her neck and fell asleep.
I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.
The absurd hours kept in the convent doubtless contribute to the unhealthy appearance of these nursling priests.
But now the sounding clocks in haste recall Each hungry straggler to his College hall; For Alma Mater well her nursling rears, Nor cheats his gullet, while she fills his ears.
All through that night Nerissa held her nursling in fond, anxious arms that knew no weariness, brooding over her as a mother with her child.
Elsie hurried upstairs, delivered her father's message, and Chloe immediately set to work, and exerting herself to the utmost, soon had her nursling looking as neat as usual.
Magdalen, "and do I hear these words from the child of my hopes, the nurslingby whose bed I have kneeled, and for whose weal I have wearied every saint in heaven with prayers?
She uttered these words with an affectionate and anxious tone, which showed, that devotional as were the habitual exercises of her mind, the thoughts of her nursling yet bound her to earth with the cords of human affection and passion.
Would she ever turn against her nursling now, above all, when he was showing himself such a son to his old father?
Then she related how for the last three months the maiden before him had been afflicted by a sore evil, but what it was she scarce could tell; of one thing only was she certain, that unless a remedy were found her nursling must die.
Glauce remembered these things, and late in the evening she led Britomart to the church, and taking down Angela's armour from its place on the wall, arrayed her fair nursling therein.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nursling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: babe; baby; infant; papoose; suckling; toddler; yearling
