125 Verbs to Use for the Word babe

By night they came and from my bed They stole my babe, and left behind A thing I hate, a thing I dread A changeling who is old and blind; He's moaning all the night and day For those who took my babe away.

There was no end to the arrivals and departures there: the peasant women were ever galloping through the place, dragging trunks about, carrying babes in swaddling clothes, and filling the rooms and the passages with wild cries and vile odors.

Parents do not know what they do when they leave tender babes alone to go to sleep in the dark.

Hither is brought the babe for the christening, hither comes the wedding procession, and here are laid, with farewell tears, the quiet dead.

Mothers laid Their babes to sleep, and many a gentle maid Sighed for her lover in that lone stockade; And one who sat apart, with pensive eye, Thus sang to hear the peewee's plaintive cry Peewee, peewee, crying sweet, Crying early, crying late Will your voice be never weary Crying for your mate?

She held the babe towards its father, saying, "Here is a thing too young for such a place.

Whom on the winding Avon's willowed banks Fair Fancy found, and bore the smiling babe To a close cavern (still the shepherds show The sacred place, whence with religious awe They hear, returning from the field at eve, Strange whisperings of sweet music through the air).

Ah! might manners and customs change, might the idea of morality and the idea of beauty be altered, and the world recast, based on the triumphant beauty of the mother suckling her babe in all the majesty of her symbolism!

It was the logical, fatal outcome of the situationgiven a wife whom her husband had perverted, a mother who refused to nurse her babe.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

One man snatched a little babe from among the wheels, and laid it down in a place of safety on the roadside.

The mother must be protected and helped, even in secrecy, if she asked for it; she must be cared for, succored, from the earliest period, and right through all the long months during which she fed her babe.

And down the wave and in the flame was borne A naked babe, and rode to Merlin's feet, Who stoopt and caught the babe, and cried, "The King!" * * * * *

By night they came and from my bed They stole my babe, and left behind A thing I hate, a thing I dread A changeling who is old and blind; He's moaning all the night and day For those who took my babe away.

Then she threw contempt on his change of purpose, and accused him of fickleness and cowardice; and declared that she had given suck, and knew how tender it was to love the babe that milked her, but she would, while it was smiling in her face, have plucked it from her breast, and dashed its brains out, if she had so sworn to do it, as he had sworn to perform that murder.

M. said she would watch the babe, and sent her off.

But have the shepherds seen the babe? Martha.

When God gave us our first-born, as he lay a smiling babe in her lap, looking up into her eye with the innocence that most likens man to angels, Marguerite shed bitter tears at the thought of such a creature's being condemned by the laws to shed the blood of men.

Never did bird brood over its young more fondlynever did nurse cherish more tenderly the new-born babe.

I hear the cries Of those that perish in yon high stockade O many a tender lad, and lonesome maid, Sweet wife and sleeping babe, and hero old

" He bound around the infant's waist a line, That fasten'd to his crupper, and then gave The babe back to her, laughing,"That end's thine

Very soon he returned, leading a woman, pale and haggard, who clasped a babe within her threadbare cloak; her eyes were red and sore with much weeping and upon the threshold she paused as one in sudden fear, but espying the friar, she uttered a cry: "O Father Martingood fatherpray, pray for the soul of him who is father to my child, but who at dawn must die with many others upon my lord Duke's great gallows!"

'Tis a sweet babe as ever was; but fitter for the kingdom of heaven than our rough lifedeary me!

And when she had opened it, she saw the child; and behold the babe wept.

An old woman on crutches was trying in vain to keep up; a young mother with a sucking child was sobbing and pressing the babe to her bosom.

125 Verbs to Use for the Word  babe