nurseling

How to use nurseling in a sentence

• I must also be careful of its legs and mandibles, the least touch of which would rip open the nurseling.

  More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri Fabre

• She had a strong, almost a maternal affection for her eldest nurseling, and she wondered how Miss Betty was feeling this morning.

  What Timmy Did | Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

• Bloom stays with nurse a thought to send a kind word to happy mother and nurseling up there.

  Ulysses | James Joyce

• It is long before the little nurseling shews, that his eye has distinguished objects from each other, so as to fix their place.

  Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) | Thomas Brown

• Heedless of all which, the nurseling took to his spoon-meat, and throve.

  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History | Thomas Carlyle