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  • And if that doesn't matter to you as much as sucking your thumb and licking your wounds, you are what I call a child.

    Game On Steven Barnes 2008

  • Suspicious contacts can be blocked and tagged to email when they call your child.

    Would You Pay For A Mobile Watchdog For Your Kids? | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Some of them saw no harm; others, more strait-laced, held that it was scarcely correct that a Roman whose principles, doubtless, were lax, should be allowed to sit to the lady whom they fondly called their child.

    Pearl-Maiden Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Many who are sound on the question of baptismal Grace, are very unsound as to a parent's duty to the baptized child.

    The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church 1887

  • Instead of speaking of our own baby, she reminded me of the name that I had given to our adopted daughter when I baptized the child.

    The Legacy of Cain Wilkie Collins 1856

  • Nebraska, the law failed to define the word child.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • "As you can tell miracles do happen," said Kenney, who also has an older full-term child.

    News for Culpeper Star-Exponent 2009

  • Once widely derided as mere "comics," illustrated panel-by-panel books are now ubiquitous and pressed into service at all levels of literacy, from cartoon-filled paperbacks for wobbly readers to sophisticated renditions of great books that bear only the faintest resemblance to the flimsy "Illustrated Classics" you might have known as a child.

    Highbrow Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010

  • Suspicious contacts can be blocked and tagged to email when they call your child.

    Would You Pay For A Mobile Watchdog For Your Kids? | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • " You Won ' t Miss Me, " which Ms. Russo-Young, 29, shot on the cheap in a variety of formats around the city in 2008, evolved after a chance encounter reunited her with Ms. Schnabel, whom she had first known as a child.

    Life Imitates Art Imitates Life Steve Dollar 2010

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