new-hatched

This in itself would not be bad, were it not for the small mesh of the nets, so small that the tiniest fishes, little new-hatched things not a quarter of an inch long, cannot pass through.

White and Yellow 2010

Ilsa was staring at the Ravons with a strange, fierce delight–like a fox studying a bunch of new-hatched chicks.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

Ilsa was staring at the Ravons with a strange, fierce delight–like a fox studying a bunch of new-hatched chicks.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

Ilsa was staring at the Ravons with a strange, fierce delight–like a fox studying a bunch of new-hatched chicks.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

Small clouds of gnats drifted in the still air under the trees, prey for the rising of the carnivorous caddis flies, stone flies, and damselflies breaking free of the surface, new-hatched and ravenous.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

That attitude and the way his hair stood up and his whiskers bristled and the blind look in his eyes put Inman in mind of a new-hatched nestling, the same frail horrifying appetite to live.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

As Polonius advises his son Laertes in Hamlet, 'Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,/Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel', while avoiding shallow friendships with 'each new-hatched, unfledged courage'.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

I was weak as a new-hatched chick and there was a curious itching sensation at the back of my neck.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

"It is upon the paka, thus brought to leaf, that the gambit moth lays it eggs and where the new-hatched caterpillars eat and grow strong before they spin their cocoon to become gambit moths."

Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999

That attitude and the way his hair stood up and his whiskers bristled and the blind look in his eyes put Inman in mind of a new-hatched nestling, the same frail horrifying appetite to live.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997