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  • There was a certain quality of ageless dreaming about the Peloponnese that rendered the present irrelevant, as if the gods themselves were mere nurselings compared to the generations of men who had lived here.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • A great many, however, of the most influential members of the Hebdomadal Council are said to view any such departure from SHAKSPEARE with alarm, as calculated to impair the discipline and sap the morality of the tender nurselings confided to their charge, and it is doubtful if the experiment will be repeated.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891 Various

  • It is only the instinctive mother-heart that can truly realise the bond that draws together the nurselings of the common homeland.

    Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose

  • We have a detailed description of the way in which they cared for nurselings.

    The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul 1923

  • Aunt Margaret was determined that her nurselings should miss nothing that she could give them.

    Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918

  • Brownie's indifference to national considerations where her nurselings were concerned was well known, and nobody argued with her.

    Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918

  • For if the art were indeed so difficult as you pretend, how should it be acquired by so many timid and delicate feminines and mere nurselings?

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

  • Remember that Katkov, Pobyedonostsev, Vishnegradsky, were nurselings of the Universities, that they were our Professors -- not military despots, but professors, luminaries ....

    Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • 'I was born of woman,' said the Prince; 'I came forth from my mother's agony, helpless as a wren, like other nurselings.

    The Dynamiter Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Nature, who every year renews the youth and beauty of her great family of vegetable nurselings, has yet higher and holier gifts for all spring.

    The Woman's Advocate Vol. III No. V %0AMay, 1870 1870

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