Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

It was embarrassing to see strapping, blonde Brassnose comport himself like a child who talks about bogeymen.

His heart was pounding like a mighty dynamo and he was trying to think, his mind seeming to scream at him like a hurt or frightened child, `` How will I do it??

She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.

She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.

She was a child too much a part of her environment, too eager to grow and learn and experience.

The child was gone.

When Juanita awoke, Kate was still rocking the dead child, still crooning in disbelief, `` No, no, oh, no!!

The bodice beneath was buttoned and, withdrawing his lips from hers, he set her upright on his knee and started to undo it, unhurriedly as if she were a child.

At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.

He was no heavier than a child.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

The child of this problem was Mr. Brown's famous Serial No. 1 Universal Milling Machine, the archtype from which is descended today's universal knee-type milling machine used throughout the world.

Of startling significance, too, is the assertion that it was possible to carry out this program with only a 6 percent attrition rate as compared with a rate of 59 percent reported for a comparable group of families who were receiving help in traditionally operated child guidance services.

The low compulsive child was one who appeared relatively unconcerned about such matters.

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children was administered to each sample third-grade child by a clinical worker.

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

Ever since I was a child, I have always had a yen to try my hand at writing.

Peter's only male heir, future king Fernando of Portugal, was a sickly child, while the illegitimate children sired with Inês thrived.

Béla was a small and sickly child and suffered from severe eczema until the age of five ( Gillies 1990, 5 ).

She was her parents ' tenth child, sickly from birth.

Born prematurely, Johannes claimed to have been weak and sickly as a child.

He was a sickly child and died in the summer of 1186.

He was a sickly child given to daydreaming, and his parents may have thought he needed toughening up.

Ueshiba was a rather weak, sickly child and bookish in his inclinations.

He was a sickly child, and was placed in a special school at the age of seven and failed the second grade.

Born into a wealthy family in New York City, Roosevelt was a sickly child who suffered from asthma and stayed at home studying natural history.

Baldwin was a sickly child and he died the next year.

Although a sickly child, he would survive into robust old age.

This brief marriage produced two children: Gilbert, a sickly child given to convulsions, born October 1672 ; the infant died not quite a year-and-a-half old.

A sickly child, Olof Palme received his education from private tutors.

As a child, Stephen was often sickly and afflicted by constant colds.

Braille had always been a sickly child, and his condition worsened in adulthood.

When her governess, Margaretta Eagar, told her after the visit that the sickly child she had been conversing so gently with was Olga, four-year-old Tatiana began to cry bitterly and protested that the pale, thin child couldn't be her adored older sister.

Francis II, who had always been a sickly child, died on 5 December 1560 in Orléans, Loiret, at the age of sixteen, when an ear infection worsened and caused an abscess in his brain.

Being a sickly child, Gordon Childe was home schooled for a number of years, before being sent to gain an education at a private school in North Sydney.

Adams was a sickly child and was not considered healthy enough for formal schooling.

Ulrika ( the older ) was sickly, and the many child births eventually broke her.

A sickly child, young " Jack " grew up surrounded by nurses and servants, and his upper-class playmates were carefully selected.

Baldwin appears as a minor character in several novels, notably Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's Król trędowaty ( The Leper King ), Graham Shelby's The Knights of Dark Renown, and Cecelia Holland's Jerusalem, as a sickly small child.

When Baldwin IV finally succumbed to his leprosy in 1185, Baldwin V became King, but he was a sickly child and died within a year.