Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Born alive; live-born.
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Examples
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And quick-born waves lashed themselves spitefully against the pier and breakwater down beyond the lawn, unseen in the swirling, screaming wildness of it all.
A Fool There Was Porter Emerson Browne
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Our melancholic young squire of Craford was not a man much given to quick-born enthusiasms; but now, as he put down his pen, and her face shone before him for the twentieth time this sunny afternoon, now all at once, "By Jove, she's unique," he cried out.
The Lady Paramount Henry Harland 1883
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