suckling child

I've seen many mothers suckling children far older here.

You are my lord and my suckling child.

Reluctantly, like a woman having a suckling child taken away from her, she lowered his head and helped Rossi cradle the wounded arm.

He held her captive suddenly, his mouth clamped to her, tongue stroking the nipple, pulling on her with the ferocity of a suckling child.

The Absolon who mourns may be recalled when we see the suckling child in the cradle at the foot of the miller and his wife's bed (4156-7).

It has been associated with Ninlil and Astarte and has been found inscribed on portraits of a woman blessing a suckling child with her right hand.

Indeed, the name of an associated, serious nutritional disease, Kwashiorkor, originates from Ghana, where it meant the sickness of a suckling child when the next one is conceived (Williams, 1963).

Yet more incriminatingly, the display also includes a close study for the head of that same suckling child by the hand of Leonardo's follower, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.

Most people forget about the Way as they follow after things, but sages stand aloof from things and take to the Way as the fundamental source, just like a suckling child feeding from its mother."

This same man was once a suckling child, and as a youth full of sportive life; but now, as years have passed away, his beauty is gone and the strength of his life is wasted."

Most sub-Sahara African ethnic groups followed or are still observing the custom of a long, traditional post-partum abstinence of one or more years (often until the suckling child is weaned, or can walk, talk, etc.).

May their Landbrides be barren, and their priests burn in hell, for they murdered their lawful lord and all his family, man and wife, father and mother, brother and sister, to the youngest suckling child.

The custom is observed in the belief that a new pregnancy - through its detrimental effect on breastfeeding - would endanger the health or cause the death of the suckling child and, probably, also in recognition of the fact that frequent pregnancies may be harmful to the mother's health.

His Healer's sense caught the answering flutter in her womb, contracting as it should in one so recently delivered of a child, and he let one hand stray lingeringly across the suckling child to rest on her abdomen as he eased onto the bed beside her and lay back against the pillows.