39 Metaphors for baby

The grass has long been green on the graves of Shepherd Fennel and his frugal wife; the guests who made up the christening party have mainly followed their entertainers to the tomb; the baby in whose honor they all had met is a matron in the sere and yellow leaf.

"Yes." "Then my baby is a baby no longer," sighed the father.

so as I never cried since I buried the last of my five children that lays in the buryin'-ground with their father, and a place for one more grown person betwixt him and the shortest of them five graves, where my baby is waitin' for its mother.

Then, too a baby is largely chance work, in that its nature cannot be exactly foreplanned and pre-determined by its makers, who, in the glow of artistic creation, must, I imagine, very often fail to follow the best aesthetic canons.

It was a queer assembly, and from it arose a queer medley of sounds: the baby was , the old crone , the gossip , the embarrassed young man , the child the tale-bearer , the hostess with the most distinguished guest, and the trickster with his intended victim.

To her thinking at the present moment, a man who would believe that her baby was the honest son of an honest father and mother had almost religion enough for all purposes.

Her name was Mistress Maude and the baby was Carrie.

Babies are human beings; an interpretation of growth, by C. Anderson Aldrich & Mary M. Aldrich.

I wasn't naterally fond of children, but somehow one's own is different, and baby was just gettin' big enough to be pretty; and there I lay, feelin' about as bad as I could, but hangin' on to one hope,that old Simon, seein' the tornado, would come pretty soon to see where we was.

The brown baby in the picture is the little girl at her side,the elder sister of the other brown baby who is doing its best to pull from its mother's lap the doll's dress upon which she is sewing.

And the baby you're expecting will be your eleventh child, will it now?

For a short time the baby was the treasure of the mission-house.

Now, Pa, I don't want Agnes' baby to be a slave.

Of course the baby is his perfect comfort and delight; but I need not enlarge on this point, as I suppose you have seen papas with their first babies.

And two days later there came from Devonshire a womana sweet-faced little woman with sick, haunted eyes; in her arms she brought a baby; and that baby was Mortimer FitzHugh's!

" "Pa thinks that baby is a spirit made out of air," said Maria, laughing in high excitement.

This, as might be expected, had the desired effect, and the baby was silencednot, however, until Whackinta had twice called down the hole in a hoarse whisper, "That'll do, Davie; stop, man, stop!"

He said her baby was even more pleasure to her than the pansy had been, and they both were "just kind of foolish over it."

A baby may be a well-spring of joy, a gleam of bright sunshine, an angel from Heaven, a compound of unalloyed blissfulness, or a mixture of "snaps and snails and puppy dogs' tails;" but it is nevertheless the tyrant of the household, the king of the family, the royal personage to whom all must bow, and to whom everything must yield.

The Moon had a baby in her belly; and the Sun said, "If our baby is a girl, we will kill it, because a girl could not be like me.

In a year there were born to us twin babies; and the madam now thought she had my wife tied, as the babies would be a barrier to anything like resistance on her part, and there would be no danger of her running away.

How could he love me if my baby is a problem?" "Good question," Oliver said.

The child must ever be fed, clothed, trained, and counselled; and the youth, too, of which the baby is father, must be watchfully guided till the stature is completed.

On the contrary, he was more dissipated than ever; and whenever he came home, the welcome that waited for him was one little calculated to make home pleasant; for Letty's quick temper blazed up in reproach and reviling that drew out worse recrimination; and even the little, wailing, feeble baby, that filled Letty's arms and consoled her in his absence, was only further cause of strife between her and her husband.

Her baby was God's gift to her: she thought of that, you know.

39 Metaphors for  baby