nurseling

I give the nurseling, which is an Anthrax-eater, a young Phaneroptera.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Without argument, Denoriel took possession of a tiny servant's room that opened into FitzRoy's bedchamber, the nurse having elected to sleep in a trundle bed right beside her nurseling.

This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

Bloom stays with nurse a thought to send a kind word to happy mother and nurseling up there.

Ulysses 2003

"You'll miss your nurseling," said Cadfael when Edgytha came at noon to serve food and drink for them.

The Confession of Brother Haluin Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

"You'll miss your nurseling," said Cadfael when Edgytha came at noon to serve food and drink for them.

The Confession of Brother Haluin Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

A devoted woman all anxiety for her nurseling, bringing honey cakes and carrying away a small token thing that slipped easily into the breast of her gown, from the breast of Benet's cotte.

The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

Here was another woman whose attitude to Father Ailnoth might be exceedingly ambivalent, torn between gratitude for a patronage which had given her status and security, and desperation at his raging resentment of the deception practised on him, if she knew how he had found it out, and his all too probable intent to see her nurseling unmasked and thrown into prison.

The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

When Cadfael could wedge a word or two into the flow he told her how her nurseling was faring, and how he would see to it that she continued to fare.

One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979

No doubt about the fervency of that prayer, she would fight and die for her nurseling.

One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979

Percy Society, there is a small error of importance, involving no less that the learned would call "a non sequitur," and which, if my correct-and-almost-unequalled nurse, Betty Richins, was alive, she would have noticed much sooner that the nurseling who now addresses you.

Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 Various