Infants
['ɪnfənts]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing a newly born infant, denotes pleasant surprises are nearing you. For a young woman to dream she has an infant, foretells she will be accused of indulgence in immoral pastime. To see an infant swimming, portends a fortunate escape from some entanglement.
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Examples
- It's very much blotted, sir,' said the farmer of infants; 'but it's formal enough, I dare say. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Perdita had permitted us to take Clara back with us to Windsor; and she and my two lovely infants were perpetual sources of interest and amusement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A whole brood of our infants have perished in a moment by a keen blast! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Human infants, on the other hand, can get along with physical incapacity just because of their social capacity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So manly by day, yet all the while, such a crying of infants in the night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Are infants to be nut-crackered into their tombs, and is nobody to save them? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He added something hardly worth repeating about infants dying almost as soon as they were born. Plato. The Republic.
- I believe, Mr. Moore, griefs and fears nursed in silence grow like Titan infants. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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