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  • Luka is Haroun's younger brother, a late-born child whose arrival "can turn back Time itself".

    Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review Alex Clark 2010

  • Nonetheless, children born right after a particular birth date cutoff can be a lot older than late-born children in the same cohort and this age difference has consequences for success in sports.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Nonetheless, children born right after a particular birth date cutoff can be a lot older than late-born children in the same cohort and this age difference has consequences for success in sports.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Nonetheless, children born right after a particular birth date cutoff can be a lot older than late-born children in the same cohort and this age difference has consequences for success in sports.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • The poetry of Emma Lazarus embraced the many diverse and often contradictory parts of her identity — the American citizen praising tolerance and liberty, the secular Jew concerned about a Jewish homeland as well as growing antisemitism at home, and the woman who, “late-born and woman-souled,” chose a career in writing over marriage.

    Poetry in the United States. 2009

  • And I was solace to him, too, for I performed the rites with him, as a king's daughter does; and also he loved me dearly, his first-born, late-born child.

    'Lavinia' 2008

  • John Keats empathizes with the late-born goddess Psyche—they are both “too, too late for the fond believing lyre”; both missed those ancient days when holy were the haunted forest boughs, Holy the air, the water and the fire.

    The Muse in the Machine David Gelernter 1994

  • At one time it was his intention to essay yet another branch of authorship and to produce a monograph on the natural history, antiquities, and topography of the town as the capital of this still unfamiliar littoral; with the late-born modesty of experience, however, he recoils from a task to which he does not feel his opportunities altogether adequate.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • And since only those images persisted which had to do with one or other of these periods, his late-born children meant little to him: if he thought or spoke of them, it was as though they were still in their infancy.

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • From late-born seraph, through cherubs and angels, to the highest archangel, they must be watching.

    The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990

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