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In her lap was an infant, which she had been suckling, though now it had fallen asleep; so had the young mother herself for a few minutes, under the drowsing effects of solitude.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 by Various

In her lap was an infant, which she had been suckling, though now it had fallen asleep; so had the young mother herself for a few minutes, under the drowsing effects of solitude. 

From A Changed Man; and other tales by Hardy, Thomas

She had been thinking only of her baby, she had been suckling it for several days, and it had given her pleasure to suckle it.

From The Untilled Field by Moore, George (George Augustus)