Participles suggest the action or attribute without affirmation; as, "A babe weeping,""An act regretted.

He wondered, sometimes almost in terror, what it meant, that he could say to this little child what he could not say to her mother; that he often detected himself in a desire to ask of this babe advice or suggestion which he never dreamed of asking from his wife.

The problem to be solved now is how to nurse this babe aright.

Let it not be supposed that Master Horner was of a cruel and ogrish naturea babe-eatera Herodone who delighted in torturing the helpless.

Many a babe hast thou rendered fatherless; but, O Agag, things evil and good come to the like end.

Sapless doctrines doth rehearse, And the milk of falsehoods acrid, Burns our babe-lips like a curse, Cling we must to godless prophets, as the suckling to the nurse.

While the mother is reaping, the infant is sleeping; Not the basket that holds the provision is less By the hard-working Reaper, than this little sleeper, Regarded, till hunger does on the babe press.

Each time the babe reacts to a pleasant or unpleasant stimulus, there is an outpouring of certain internal secretions, a cessation of others, a tingling of certain vegetative nerves and organs, a hushing of others.

The Man of Ross, each lisping babe replies.

Thy little babe scarce 'woke to life, And promised fair to bloom, Ere cruel Death his victim seiz'd, And bore it to the tomb.

And presently she came less to tremble, and did weep very easeful, even as a babe doth weep; and I, mayhap, to be not over-steady, as you shall think; but yet to have a great gladness set in my heart, and a triumph, and an utter grace of thankfulness.

Thou art a babe weeping in a place of shadows, so will I go beside thee in the dark to soothe and comfort thee.

The Virgin began ascending to pursue the path of her Son; and Dante, unable to endure her beauty as it rose, turned his eyes to the angelical callers on the name of Mary, who remained yearning after her with their hands outstretched, as a babe yearns after the bosom withdrawn from his lips.