"I was leading troops into battle when you were nothing more than a mewling infant!"

Much less amusing is the mewling infant.

He held him there for probably a moment longer than he had to, Hodgkis kicking and flailing about, helpless as any mewling infant.

Perhaps the flames were fanned by her hatred for me, the insignificant mewling infant that had killed her.

Could we stomp on this hideous mewling infant before it grows up and everyone starts using it?

One of the boys was a mewling infant, and none of these people had asked to be born in the first place.

Like a mewling infant who cannot make his own food, we are stuck on these beautiful islands, on rock devoid of all fossil fuels.

Voodooism was a mewling infant beside the black, immemorial colossus that had reared its terrible shape in the older land through uncounted ages, Zambebwei!

Maybe it's because parents always look at their children and see them only as the mewling infants they were at birth.