She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

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??

In time she presents her aristocratic husband with a coal-black child.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

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

We don't think she can make her child defective, emotionally disturbed or autistic.

The mother of a difficult child can do a great deal to help her own child and often, by sharing her experiences, she can help other mothers with the same problem.

Through the swathings of terror, she jabbed deceit's sharp point -- Amy would be reborn, a new child, with new parents, living under new circumstances.

His Mary would be slender of limb and delicate of proportion, yet she must hold this full-grown man as securely and convincingly as she would a child.

When he told her God had called the child to Him, she rejected his words rebelliously.

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.

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.

`` Your wife just called '', she said, separating one word from another, exactly like a child.

Or perhaps she hears words or sounds: `` There's such a noise of loud machinery '', or `` I hear a child crying '', or `` He says we're all here and glad to see you ''.

`` Evadna Mae Evans said she didn't put a thing on her child but a flannel wrapper until it was nine months old ''.

It was so pretty and artless that she felt like a child again and would have enjoyed running out barefoot to play on the wet grass with all the growing things, but Doaty never permitted bare feet and she was decidedly not a child but une femme d'un certain age.

She smiled and bowed, recalling the princess-in-a-carriage feeling she had enjoyed when she was a child.

If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

`` Didn't occur to me my child would be kidnaped when I had it listed '', Andrus muttered.

When might Mary have had that moment to hold her child on her lap??

the child who had once considered it a treat to accompany his parents on picnics and family gatherings now considers it a bore.

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

An only child, he had done all the things that young men do who have been born to money and social position until his father double-crossed him by dying broke.

Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.

She set out to make sure that no Jewish child anyplace in the world had to live in a place such as this ''.

`` You bring only wickedness '', she said and it was not to a child any longer but to another woman who had come to skirt her lodge with the cunning hunger of a wild animal.

Growing up without a mother from the time she was three -- it wasn't a good thing for a child, even knowing the kind of mother Alice had been.

Two days before he was taken sick, Cousin Elec was out worrying about what too much rain might do to his sweetpeas, and Cousin Elec had always preserved in the top drawer of his secretary a mother-of-pearl paper knife which Theresa had coveted as a child and which he had promised she could have when he died.

I had never liked snakes much, I still had that kind of quick panic that I'd had as a child whenever I saw one, but this snake was clean and bright and very beautiful.

Perhaps, the psychological barriers that had prevented her from conceiving Hal's child would no longer be present.

Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since Python was a child of Gaia.

`` Fanny and Mrs. Godwin will probably be glad to hear that Mary has safely recovered from a very favorable confinement, and that her child is well ''.

Bronson described her as " a very fine healthful child, much more so than Anna was at birth.

His parents recall him as a very quiet and unassuming child, who would spend hours drawing in his room:

More often than not a cross-examiner will also attempt to undermine the credibility of a witness if he will not be perceived to be a bully ( such as discrediting a very elderly person or young child ).

As a child he was a mediocre student but was very much interested in technology and engineering ; so much, in fact, that his friends nicknamed him “ Science ”.

The word is from Old English godsibb, from god and sibb, the term for the godparents of one's child or the parents of one's godchild, generally very close friends.

There is very little Internet censorship in Hong Kong beyond laws that criminalize the distribution of certain materials, particularly child pornography, obscene images, and pirated materials.

Homeschooling can be about mentorship and apprenticeship, where a tutor or teacher is with the child for many years and then knows the child very well.

When the icon arrived in Constantinople it was fitted in as the head into a very large rectangular icon of her holding the Christ child and it is this composite icon that became the one historically known as the Hodegetria.

Pre-industrial society was very static and often cruel — child labour, dirty living conditions, and long working hours were just as prevalent before the Industrial Revolution.

In its most extreme forms, child labour involves children being enslaved, separated from their families, exposed to serious hazards and illnesses and / or left to fend for themselves on the streets of large cities – often at a very early age.

In a note prefixed to the Collected Edition of his wife's poems, Robert Browning tells us that " On the early death of his father, he ( Edward Moulton ) was brought from Jamaica to England when a very young child, as ward to the late Chief Baron Lord Abinger, then Mr. Scarlett, whom he frequently accompanied in his post-chaise when on pursuit.

His father, who was a lawyer, died while he was a child, and his mother was left with very small means ; but her sister, who was lady of the chamber to the Landgravine of Hesse, helped to support and educate her numerous family.

A child with TNM typically responds very well to acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.

Her observations about the sharing of garden plots amongst the Arapesh, the egalitarian emphasis in child rearing, and her documentation of predominantly peaceful relations among relatives are very different from the " big man " displays of dominance that were documented in more stratified New Guinea cultures — e. g., by Andrew Strathern.

Having been born in Milan, Maria was recognized as a child prodigy very early ; she could speak both Italian and French at five years of age.

* Elisha raises the son of the Shunammite woman ( 2 Kings 4: 32-37 ); this was the very same child whose birth he previously foretold ( 2 Kings 4: 8-16 )

Indeed, the original haiku included the theme " oni " ( the " it " in Japanese is a demon, though in some parts a very young child forced to play " it " was called a " sea slug " ( namako )).

Galgos are also very good with children, being calm in the house so there is less risk of a child being knocked over or jumped on than with a more excitable breed.

Another point is that those actions of free beings which bring about evil very often diminish the freedom of those who suffer the evil-for example, the murder of a young child ( e. g. Death of Baby P ) may prevent the child from ever exercising their free will in a significant way.

Occasionally a more talented child may do card tricks, play the mouth organ, or something even more impressive, but most children will earn plenty of treats even with something very simple.