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Definition of Kidlings
1. kidling [n] - See also: kidling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kidlings
Literary usage of Kidlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Best by Lindley Murray, Montgomery Robert Bartlett (1823)
"... waving top', kidlings now',, begin to crop' . Gently greets',, the morning
gale*; Daisies',, on the dewy dale.* Did sweeter sounds',, adorn my flowing ..."
2. Lyric Poetry of Glees, Madrigals, Catches, Rounds, Canons, and Duets: As by Thomas Ludford Bellamy (1840)
"... And the lone plain with fervour glows, While kidlings faint in slumber lie,
Lulled by the bees to deep repose. Here may we pass the noontide hours, ..."
3. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1898)
"Robinson: (kidlings) The interpolation being very clear and allegro. In 1849 he
married Miss Fanny Arthur, a sister of a well- known banker in Paris, ..."
4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1808)
"kidlings now begin to crop Daisies in the dewy dale. Now the pine-tree's waving
top Gently greets the morning gale: From the balmy sweets, ..."
5. The Achievements of Stanley and Other African Explorers: Comprising All the by Joel Tyler Headley (1878)
"Sketch such a village in your imagination, and let the centre of it be dotted
here and there with the forms of kidlings who prank it with the vivacity of ..."
6. Studies and Memories by Charles Villiers Stanford (1908)
"Robinson: (kidlings) The interpolation being very clear and allegro. In 1849 he
married Miss Fanny Arthur, a sister of a well-known banker in Paris, ..."
7. The Odyssey of Homer in English Verse by Homer (1904)
"And he sat him down, and drew from each of the bleating dams The milk in order
due, and put under them kidlings or lambs. And he curdled half of the white ..."
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