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New-born hopes seemed, like the rainbow, to appear in the clouds of sorrow, faint, yet sufficient to amuse away despair.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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-- New-born foals are sometimes unable to stand on their front feet because of the excessive knuckling-over.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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New-born babes are buried in tiny coffins covered with pink or blue cambric.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee
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At last, from under the altar, the senior priest ... took out the image of the Babe New-born, reverently and slowly, and held it up in his hands for adoration.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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New-born babies have their troubles in Russia, for such a christening must be a grave trouble indeed, and thus they receive their cross, which they have to carry to the grave.
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New-born democracy was not inclined to look favourably on the independence of religious non-democratic associations, and the fact that Leviathan had become democratic was thought to have transformed him into a monster within whose capacious maw any number of Jonahs might live at ease or liberty.
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"New-born specks of living matter" is language that a vitalist might possibly use by sheer inadvertence; but no avowed materialist, like Professor Bastian, should trip in this definitional way.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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New-born babies often bear a far more striking resemblance to one or other of their progenitors than do infants of five or six months old.
The Saltmarsh Murders Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1933
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New-born babes had been killed, a nurse and two mothers.
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New-born children must be baptized on account of original sin.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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