The parts that pleased her most were the Revelations and the Prophecies,--parts whose dim and wondrous imagery, and fervent language, impressed her the more, that she questioned vainly of their meaning;--and she and her simple friend, the old child and the young one, felt just alike about it.
"Don't you see,--there?" said the child, pointing to the glassy water, which, as it rose and fell, reflected the golden glow of the sky.
Uncle Toms Cabin
Her only real comfort was when the child lay in the placidity of sleep.
Nothing was more remarkable than the instinct, as it seemed, with which the child comprehended her loneliness: the destiny that had drawn an inviolable circle round about her: the whole peculiarity, in short, of her position in respect to other children.
Scarlet Letter
"Who art thou?" said the Giant, and a strange awe fell on him, and he knelt before the little child.
And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, "You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise."
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The softly glowing vision of the
child moved away before me among the trees.
The Two Destinies
But the poor mother ran out of the house and cried aloud for her
child.
Andersens Fairy Tales
For my part, my curiosity and interest were at least equal to the
child's, for
child she certainly was, although I thought it probably from what I could make out, that her very small and delicate frame imparted a peculiar youthfulness to her appearance.
The Old Curiosity Shop
"Yet may his
child be otherwise, Mother of the Heavens!
Nada The Lily
But, after opening the house-door, she stood an instant on the threshold, hesitating whether she ought to ask the
child to come in, or whether she should even speak to her.
Snow Image
The only thing I found in all her conversation on these subjects that gave me any distaste, was, that one time in discouraging about my being far gone with
child, and the time I expected to come, she said something that looked as if she could help me off with my burthen sooner, if I was willing; or, in English, that she could give me something to make me miscarry, if I had a desire to put an end to my troubles that way; but I soon let her see that I abhorred the thoughts of it; and, to do her justice, she put it off so cleverly, that I could not say she really intended it, or whether she only mentioned the practice as a horrible thing; for she couched her words so well, and took my meaning so quickly, that she gave her negative before I could explain myself.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
"Oh my daughter!" she said, "my daughter, my poor, dear little
child, so I shall never see thee more!
Notre Dame de Paris
She opened the door of a room on the floor below and took the
child over to a bed in which a woman was lying.
Of Human Bondage
"It's very well that I'm teaching Grisha, but of course that's only because I am free myself now, I'm not with
child. Stiva, of course, there's no counting on.
Anna Karenina