Lexicographical Neighbors of Kidlets
Literary usage of Kidlets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"Students at the University of California humorously spoke of our men as "kidlets"
or as "the boys from Dr. Jordan's school." In the first inter- collegiate ..."
2. Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life by Josiah Flynt, Josiah Flynt Willard (1899)
"She ought to have been in an insane asylum, and I hope John has put her there
long ago. The other " kidlets ..."
3. Today's Short Stories Analyzed: An Informal Encyclopedia of Short Story Art by Robert Wilson Neal (1918)
"Except mother and the kidlets, we're a hard lot. Sam—he's the oldest—he's all right.
He got away. Guess the rest of us didn't have much chance. ..."
4. War Poems and Other Verses by Robert Ernest Vernède (1920)
"Thus, then, when you are dead and gone, Still will a kid go capering on, Or
rather, 'neath her skirts with glide Two twinkling kidlets side by side. ..."
5. A Trip to Lotus Land by Archie Bell (1917)
"One goes into the kindergarten classes and finds the little kidlets piling their
blocks and bowing profoundly, without the least self-consciousness, ..."
6. From My Quebec Scrap-book by George Moore Fairchild (1907)
"... contained an old- fashioned four poster bedstead, while under it were several
low cribs which are hauled out at night for the kidlets. ..."
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