Mammalia, that class of animals characterized by the femalesuckling its young.
Lubbock is of opinion that when a woman died in giving birth to a child, or even while still suckling it, the child was interred alive with her.
Captain Suckling had died in July, 1778, and with him departed the only powerful support upon which the young lieutenant could then count, apart from his own merits and the friends obtained by them.
If, as is said by the gentlemen into whose hands this letter passed, Suckling consented to help him, as he certainly did at the time of his actual marriage, it seems probable that the lady refused him.
This Suckling consented to give, and for several years continued liberally to extend.
She was similarly the goddess of maternity, and is depicted in this character, like Isis and other goddesses of similar character, suckling a babe.
Sir John Suckling is acknowledged to have left far behind him all former writers of song in gaiety and ease; it is not equally clear that he has ever since been surpassed.
Suckling has an incomparable image, on a lady dancing.
The Suckling arms and many curious carvings are still to be seen on the gateway.
A very injurious practice is sometimes adopted, in suckling a child beyond the proper period, which ought by all means to be discountenanced, as evidently unnatural, and tending to produce weakness both in body and mind.
Suckling should not be continued after the cutting of the first teeth, when the clearest indication is given, that the food which was adapted to the earliest stage of infancy ceases to be proper.
In some cases it is much better, on account of the various diseases to which suckling women are subject, and the improper food in which they too frequently indulge.
It may, therefore, be advisable to refer to another system of feeding the suckling sow and the young pigs.
Nothing can tempt my waning appetite but a suckling from the Earth Sow.
Then, my mother, you shall have a suckling from the Earth Sow!
Vitazko again reached over and now he picked up the same little suckling on the end of his spit.
The suckling will squeal and instantly the Sow will spring up and in a fury race madly around the world and back in a moment of time.
Then do you pick up the same littlesuckling on your spit and carry it off.
When he begs you to eat something, tell him that nothing can tempt you but a suckling from the Earth Sow.
My mother is sick and nothing will tempt her but a suckling from the Earth Sow's litter.
Pretend you're sick again and tell him you're so weak that even the suckling of the Earth Sow doesn't tempt your appetite.
She disregarded the snow which chilled her from without, and licked him with her warm tongue as tenderly as if he had been a sleepy suckling in the nesting burrow.
Just a young brood, no more than suckling infants--if suckling was the word, or even some kind of wild approximation.
The division of the first Decan of the Virgin, Aben Ezra says, represents a beautiful Virgin with flowing hair, sitting in a chair, with two ears of corn in her hand, and suckling an infant.
It pictured a woman suckling an infant, the son of Isis, born near the Winter Solstice.
Amongst the married poor, suckling was found to be the rule; and it seemed to be pretty conclusively proved that it is often unreasonably prolonged for eighteen months or even two years, as a preventive to renewed pregnancy.
At the siege of Berlin nearly all the sucklingchildren died of convulsions.
Again, tightlacing not infrequently stops the growth and arrests the development of a young girl's mammae, thus seriously incapacitating her from suckling her babe when she becomes a mother.
She has various aspects, but the one which appealed most to the imagination of the Egyptians, was that of "divine mother"; in this character thousands of statues represent her seated and suckling her child Horus whom she holds upon her knees.
In Osiris the Christian Egyptians found the prototype of Christ, and in the pictures and statues of Isis suckling her son Horus, they perceived the prototypes of the Virgin Mary and her Child.
Isis suckling her child Horus in the papyrus swamps.
And the uninvited guest, the little suckling who had no right to be born, also atoned for its fault; they said that it was dead.
I know not how the thought occurred to me, but I suddenly thrust into my bosom the little suckling lying on the table and carried it off into my own room.
Sometimes a hunter finds a suckling 'coon in the woods.
There was an Italian mother sitting on the curb, her feet in the gutter, smiling down at the baby that was hungrily suckling at her milk-heavy breast.
Imbeciles and suckling women to be dieted as the aged, "with or without the substitution of milk porridge and bread at breakfast or supper or at both meals.
Her own babe will have to be fed artificially as very few mothers can endure the strain of two suckling children.
I have done enough for you by bearing you next to my heart, and by suckling you with my breasts.
With some, a mother dying while suckling her infant, the living child was placed at her breast and buried with her, in order that in her future state she might continue to nourish it with her milk.
We went to bid good day to the countess, whom we found suckling her baby.
I went in, and the pastrycook told me that the house belonged to him, and his pretty wife, who wassuckling a baby, begged me to come upstairs and see the room.
The fashionable style remained chiefly with Cowley; Suckling could not reach it, and Milton disdained it.
To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety, but not the knowledge; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge, but not the gaiety.
All the wet-nurses vied with each other for the honour of suckling the Prophet's son, who was called Ibrahim.
Upon one of them devolved the honour of suckling the Prophet of Allah.
On it were four sirloins, six chicken fricassees, stewed veal, three legs of mutton, and in the middle a fine roast suckling pig, flanked by four chitterlings with sorrel.
At the noise of the gate the nurse appeared with a baby she was suckling on one arm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suckling" 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
