wonder-child

Young “Shimmele,” the “wonder-child” in her novel Idyls of the Gass (1901), was modeled upon these stories.

Martha Wolfenstein. 2009

The culmina - tion of everything is the conversion of Constantine, who achieves supreme worldly success through mira - cles, and appears as something like a wonder-child himself.

HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

'A wonder-child indeed, 'as one has described him,' in his boy's suit, shaking back his long curls, and looking over the heads of the musicians like a little general; then stoutly waving his baton, and firmly and quietly conducting his piece to the end, meanwhile noting and listening to every little detail as it passed. '

Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

"Who taught you to pose -- and to dance like that, you wonder-child?"

The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

As a concrete protest against Jumbomania, or the worship of mammoth dimensions, the prodigious success of Tiny Titus, America's latest wonder-child, is immensely reassuring.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 Various

'Oh, Clarence,' she cried, 'my precious angel wonder-child, I don't know how to begin.'

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories 1928

We measured each other -- he called me wonder-child.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

Since they got to be in camp, all right, I say, let them be there, if my heart breaks for it, but not my wonder-child!

Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

Of her in her childhood it has been said that she was never the wonder-child of fiction who at ten has read all that its author probably had not read at thirty.

This Freedom 1925

She was never -- that Rosalie -- the conventional wonder-child of fiction who reads before ten all that its author probably never read before thirty; but she could read when she was six and she read widely and curiously, choosing her entertainment, from her father's bookshelves, solely by the method of reading every book that had pictures.

This Freedom 1925