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The chilly crypts also contain the tombs of the infantes and infantas, their white marble coffins stacked in circles like the layers of a wedding cake.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the Maracaibo began to tow the Cloud to Turiamo Naval Base, nine Venezuelan infantes, or marines, parachuted onto the deck of the mystery ship.

From Time Magazine Archive

No doubt the Moors would have agreed to this; it mattered little to them which of the infantes remained captive, but the council of war which Enrique summoned would not consent.

From The Red Book of Heroes by Mills, Arthur Wallis

Fighting still went on in the neighbourhood of Ceuta, but though the other princes, or infantes, took part, Fernando stayed in Portugal.

From The Red Book of Heroes by Mills, Arthur Wallis

The apostle Paul worthily gaue this honor vnto the verse of Menãder, yt he wold recite it in his epistels: Euyl comunicaciõ, corrupteth good maners: but this is neuer truer thẽ in infantes.

From The Education of Children by Sherry, Richard