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  • It was a spectacle for God, that man and woman, years married, and singing love-songs with a freshness virginal as new-born Love himself, with a ripeness and wealth of ardor that young lovers can never know.

    WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

  • Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all the mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.

    The Lair 2010

  • And being required by the X-Ray tech to hold motionless positions even after he had pushed the button, while weak as a new-born, was not fun.

    Matthew Yglesias » Hospital Quality 2009

  • Martin was puzzled as to what the discussion was about, but when he rode on to the library he carried with him a new-born interest in Herbert Spencer, and because of the frequency with which the tramp had mentioned "First Principles,"

    Chapter 13 2010

  • In the paddock were many mares with new-born colts; and once, receiving warning in time,

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • She also feels anxious at the lack of privacy she has when she breast-feeds her new-born son in her road-side shack.

    Caroline Gluck: Rebirth Among the Flood Ruins in Pakistan Caroline Gluck 2010

  • She also feels anxious at the lack of privacy she has when she breast-feeds her new-born son in her road-side shack.

    Caroline Gluck: Rebirth Among the Flood Ruins in Pakistan Caroline Gluck 2010

  • She also feels anxious at the lack of privacy she has when she breast-feeds her new-born son in her road-side shack.

    Caroline Gluck: Rebirth Among the Flood Ruins in Pakistan Caroline Gluck 2010

  • She also feels anxious at the lack of privacy she has when she breast-feeds her new-born son in her road-side shack.

    Caroline Gluck: Rebirth Among the Flood Ruins in Pakistan Caroline Gluck 2010

  • They had been young when love was young, and they were wiser than convention and opinion and all the new-born things.

    Chapter 20 2010

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