It is the general rule also that there should be no sexual intercourse during pregnancy, while a child is being suckled (which goes on for three or four years), or even until it can speak or walk.
A child is suckled by the mother until another comes on and crowds it out.
The child is suckled for about two years; yucca-root pap also forms a great part of its food in some parts, but otherwise it receives little care.
He is suckled by the mother until three or four years old, and at an early age begins to learn the arts of fishing by which he is to live.
Thereafter the lambs are still kept up but the ewes are driven out to pasture with the flock, being brought back to them in the evening to be suckled and then once more separated, lest the lambs be trampled by the ewes at night.
It was under this fig tree that Romulus and Remus were supposed to have been suckled by the wolf.
When the mother's breasts are full, her child is given to her to suckle, but now, as in the old days, the children of chiefs are suckled by more than one woman.
In the province of Namosi, where children were suckled for three years, there is a belief that if the father, when separated from his wife, has an intrigue with another woman his child will fall off, showing the symptoms of ndambe.
The monkeys are members of the family, eat with the other members, are suckled by the women, and have great affection for their human nurses.
Gods, heroes, saints, are suckled and cared for in their infancy by grateful beasts.
An old Egyptian painting represents a child and a calf being suckled by the same cow, and in Palestine and the Canary Islands, goats are used to suckle children, especially if the mother of the little one has died (125.
O my son, I am thy mother who bare thee nine months and suckled thee and reared thee.
A she-wolf came to drink of the stream: she heard the whimpering of the children, carried them into her den hard by, made a bed for them, licked and suckled them.
He wears no coronet, but a burgher's cap; and beneath his footstool are the Roman twins, suckled by the she-wolf.
His mother gave him to be suckled by a stone-cutter's wife at Settignano, so that in after days he used to say that he had drawn in the love of chisels and mallets with his nurse's milk.
Having suckled the baby myself, and kissed its mother before she died, I couldn't make up my mind to the chance of its being took away from me just then.
Where's the woman who suckled my baby when I was alone by the roadside?
That was the first time I suckled little Mary, ma'am.
I've known some sorrow with her since I took her as my own; but I love her only the dearer for it, and still think the day a happy day for both of us, when I first stopped and suckled her by the road-side.
Be thou sure that, verily, thy deceased child is now one of those babes who are suckled in the Kingdom of Life, under the charge of the Beauty of El-ABHA.
The infant is suckled from one to two years, and then takes to the ordinary diet of boiled wild sago, varied with other animal and vegetable products of the jungle.
This is especially the case if the woman has actually suckled the child.
XVI-1] The Cretans loaded it with acorns and all the comforts of life, because Jupiter was first suckled by a sow in their island.
The conversation at supper was on Nursing Children; I find it is common here for people of Fortune to have their young Children suckled by the Negroes!
It was a lamb whose mother had no milk; on the day of its birth, it was suckled by a bitch: that is to-day's ewe.
This was done; but the cradle stranded, and they were suckled by a she-wolf.
She was, however, suckled by a she-bear, the symbol of Diana.
She stood and suckledthe child once more, then laid him gently in her husband's arms.
The woman did not speak but took the child and suckled it.
Women who have never suckled often experience difficulty in nursing, on account of the sunken and flat condition of the nipple.
She should not be over thirty years of age, and should, if possible, be one who has previously suckled and had charge of children.
Livingstone says he has frequently seen in Africa a grandchild suckled by a grandmother.
The child being suckled soon afterwards, it died in convulsions.
The General brought the cubs away; they were suckled by a goat and sent to England, where they arrived in September, 1823, as a present to George IV.
A Bat, taken in Elgin, gave birth to a young one, which was for two dayssuckled by its parent.
She embraced again and again the young mother who had for so many days suckled her child, even, it was said, depriving her own hardier babe that Ramona's should not suffer.
One would think she had suckled pain," thought Ramona, "so constantly have I grieved this year; but the Virgin has kept her well.
Romulus and a she-wolf who suckled him, has lately been explained by Prof.
The mother burst into a cry of joy, and the woman seemed quite proud of having suckled the scion of so illustrious a house for nearly four hours.
Who can say that this woman, simple and honest like the majority of the lower classes, did not think that her own offspring would be ennobled by being suckled at the breast which had nourished a young count?
This same cat afterwards suckled a puppy and kitten at the same time.
Still, when once upon a time all her kittens were drowned, she went and brought home two young rabbits, which she suckled and reared to maturity, and defended from dogs and cats and all comers.
A cat of mine, a few years ago, suckled and reared a beautiful Pomeranian dog.
Wilmington suckledchildren who rallied under Scott in Mexico, heard the thunderings at Monterey, and the immortal Alamo.
She has carried us in her arms and suckled us at her breast, and in thousands of instances her word has been the only law among our children in our nurseries.
Then he bade bring for the babe wet-nurses who suckled him until milktime ended, when they weaned him, after which he grew every day in strength and stature till his age reached his sixth year.
So she was delivered of a girl-child, in whom the father rejoiced with great joy and bade bring for her wet- nurses whosuckled her for two years until the milk time was past.
But which is he who said of the kid's meat that the beast wassuckled by a bitch?
There can be no doubt about a wife's duty, but, considering the contempt in which it is held, it is doubtful whether it is not just as good for the child to be suckled by a stranger.
Every child becomes fond of its nurse; Romulus must have loved the she-wolf whosuckled him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suckled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
