babyhood

At length, when this determination had been announced half a hundred times, the old lady suddenly bridling up and looking very majestic, wished to know what she had done that no respect was to be paid to her years or station, and that she should be obliged to beg and pray, in that way, of her own nephew, whom she remembered about five-and-twenty years before he was born, and whom she had known, personally, when he hadn't a tooth in his head; to say nothing of her presence on the first occasion of his having his hair cut, and assistance at numerous other times and ceremonies during his babyhood, of sufficient importance to found a claim upon his affection, obedience, and sympathies, for ever.

As regards its interior life, a large, dim looking-glass used to hang in one of the rooms, and was fabled to contain within its depths all the shapes that had ever been reflected there,--the old Colonel himself, and his many descendants, some in the garb of antique babyhood, and others in the bloom of feminine beauty or manly prime, or saddened with the wrinkles of frosty age.

The mother, as she listened, thought how fit and delightful an incident it would be, if fairies, or still better, if angel-children were to come from paradise, and play invisibly with her own darlings, and help them to make their snow-image, giving it the features of celestial babyhood! Violet and Peony would not be aware of their immortal playmates,--only they would see that the image grew very beautiful while they worked at it, and would think that they themselves had done it all.

From babyhood until the time of her death, when the poisoned arrow of Kulonga had pierced her savage heart, Kala had represented to the English boy the sole object of love which he had known.

Accustomed from her very babyhood promptly to do the thing that could be done-- whether to keep out weather, to ward off cold, to postpone hunger, or what not--she started out of her meditation, and ran home.

The house was her own, and contained five rooms, three of which she shared with my orphaned cousin, Sasha(whom she had brought up from babyhood); a fourth was occupied by my mother and myself; and the fifth was rented of Anna by a poor student named Pokrovski.

His son, he affirmed, had resembled him amazingly from his earliest babyhood.

A video montage follows his journey from babyhood to adulthood, with his round face and shock of red hair a constant presence as he tries his hand at the piano, drums and the guitar, always with a smile on his lips.

Schools must provide practical platforms: Values cannot be taught through preaching; they must be 'lived', and the process must begin well before they enter school, at babyhood.

As PT Forsyth rightly protests, ''Our very Christmas becomes the festival of babyhood, Good Friday the worship of grief, and Easter of (nature's) spring and renewal instead of (God's) regeneration' ('Cruciality of the Cross'p 30-31) Our towns and cities are littered with cardboard boxes.Yet these discarded containers become the shelter for homeless people.The cardboard box is a symbol of homelessness.

There are different methods prescribed in Islam to confirm the sex of transgender in babyhood as well as in the age of puberty.

Entitled "A Charm of Lullabies" it did indeed have a largely underlying theme of babyhood and sleep, but there were so many twists in the tale here, with a disturbing pessimism belying the balm of a sunny afternoon outside.

For most, the years of babyhood are demanding but immensely satisfying.

With the advent of my teenage years, it was obvious that in order to survive the aspirations and manipulations of my mother, I had to steel myself for a very long haul so that I could assert and fulfil my own wishes and path through life.The bottom line in Cypriot society is that regardless of an heir's age, mothers consider them to be in a permanent state of babyhood which automatically means that they are to be obeyed and shown unconditional respect come what may!

She concluded that since humans are designed to nurse beyond babyhood, breast milk does not have any expiry date; so it all comes down to how long the mother and the child wish to continue with breastfeeding.