nursling

How to use nursling in a sentence

• If a man has taken a young child ‘from his waters’ to sonship, and has reared him up, no one has any claim against that nursling.

  The Oldest Code of Laws in the World | Hammurabi, King of Babylon

• But if either of them showed the faintest sign of fatigue, the mother dived quietly and lifted the tired nursling to the surface.

  Creatures of the Night | Alfred W. Rees

• Nettie, who was not much given to caresses, came up and put sudden arms round her special nursling.

  The Doctor's Family | Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

• The black woman cared more for her white nursling than her own child.

  Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War | Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts

• The use of a sucking-bottle most nearly imitates the way in which nature designed the nursling to obtain its nourishment.

  The Physical Life of Woman: | Dr. George H Napheys