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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
suckle
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Examples
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She laid her lute in her lap and with bosom inclining over it, bent to it with the bending of a mother who suckleth her child; then she preluded in twelve different modes, till the whole assembly was agitated with delight, like a waving sea, and she sang the following,
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I saw wonders without number or count, amongst others a fish like a cow which bringeth forth its young and suckleth them like human beings; and of its skin bucklers are made. 36 There were eke fishes like asses and camels37 and tortoises twenty cubits wide. 38
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In these Indian seas I saw wonders without number or count, amongst others a fish like a cow which bringeth forth its young and suckleth them like human beings, and of its skin bucklers are made.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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On the day whereon ye shall see it, every woman who giveth suck shall forget the infant which she suckleth, x and every female that is with young shall cast her burden; and thou shalt see men seemingly drunk, yet they shall not be really drunk: but the punishment of GOD will be severe.
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716
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Vnder her belly shee hath a bagge, wherein she lodgeth, carrieth, and suckleth her young.
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In these Indian seas, I saw wonders without number or count, amongst others a fish like a cow which bringeth forth its young and suckleth them like human beings; and of its skin bucklers are made. [
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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