nurseling
Americannoun
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They were outside Magda's dressing-room by this time, and Virginie, who had flown to her nurseling the moment the dance was at an end, opened the door in response to Lady Arabella's preemptory knock.
From The Lamp of Fate by Pedler, Margaret
The first idea that presents itself and the only one, I think, that can present itself is that the larva, the carnivorous nurseling, has its preferences, or we had better say its exclusive tastes.
From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
The startled hermit glared from his nurseling to Margaret, and from her to him, in amazement, equalled only by his agitation at her so unexpected return.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Reade, Charles
There’s never a delicate nurseling of the year But our huge London hails it, and delights To wear it on her breast or at her ear, Her days to colour and make sweet her nights.
From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by Henley, William Ernest
Now nation looks to nation, that may live Their common nurseling, like the torrent's flower, Shaken by foul Destruction's fast-piled heap.
From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George
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