15 collocations for children

HARRELL, COSTEN J. A Methodist childs membership manual.

I have an acquaintance, the mother of a plump, jolly little tomboy of a girl; which child my acquaintance dresses in dainty embroideries and laces, delicately colored ribbons, velvet cloaks, and feathered hats.

But it is incorrect to call a man, woman or child an individual, except with reference to mankind, to society or to a class of persons.

Had it not been for this catastrophe, he would have kept from his wife and child the knowledge of the cruel attempt that had been made on his life as such knowledge could only distress them, and cause them needless anxiety and alarm in future.

[Footnote E: Chaucer's text is: 'This litel child his litel book lernynge As he sat in the schole in his primere.' Ed.]

In another case, an artist was engaged on the portraits of twins who were between three and four years of age; he had to lay aside his work for three weeks, and, on resuming it, could not tell to which child the respective likenesses he had in hand belonged.

Implore peace, not of deified thunderclouds, but of every man, woman, or child thou shalt meet.

For it is not only pleasure that the sight of the soldiers in their midst provides: it gives every man and woman and child an opportunity of realising the significance of uniforms.

But the lord-governor parleyed with him, and promised that he would give him and his wife and child a free passage to Coromantien in the first ship that touched on the coast.

The festival therefore becomes a saturnale, during which servants forget their duties to their masters, children their reverence for parents, even their respect for women, and women all notions of modesty, delicacy, and gentleness; they become raging bacchantes....

He said that before the crash came he had noticed a lady and gentleman sitting across the aisle from him, and a nurse and child a few seats further ahead; that his attention had been called to the child particularly, because he was a boy and about the age of his own little grandson.

Or what child meanest thou? HECUBA.

But it must be done, she thought; he had told her once that were she Hagar Warren's grandchild he should not be riding with herhow much less, then, would he make that child his wife!

With a board the thoughtless child the anthill.

You know whether in all my life up to the day those dollar-frenzied hounds tore my soul, I had done any man, woman, or child a wrong.

15 collocations for  children