"Baby" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tingle; then came a Parroquet, dressed like a dandy, and with him were two fashionable birds, Miss Cockatoo and Miss Snowy Owl; then followed an old Crocodile, looking like one of those withered Indian nurses, and in her arms she carried a young Frog that might have been an Indian baby. Besides these, there was a young Monkey, exactly like my brother's boy, Jack; a Mouse, dressed in the last-fashioned paletot; and a little thing that for a long time I could make nothing of, but I fancy they ...
— Comical People • Unknown
... she reined in the bronco and went quietly, lest she should wake the people. There was a light burning in the room over the store, and the window was open. A woman answered her summons. It was the wife of the storekeeper. Her husband was absent, she said, and she was up with a sick baby. She readily filled the little flask, and was sympathetic and eager to help. Shouldn't she send somebody over to the ranch? There wasn't any doctor in Cameron City, but Cy Willows ...
— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller
... father took me over to his cottage, near Dieppe, to spend my holidays, I found that my stepmother was a kind-hearted, pretty little thing, whom I might look down upon for her want of education, but whom I could not dislike. She was very kind to me; and she had a baby boy. I have told you about him, and how he and I fell in love with each other at ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... I can tell you," he said irritably, "to be as weak as a day-old baby, and to have to ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... church-wardens yearly, Eat up a small baby—those cormorant sinners. The Bankrupt Commissioners, bolt very nearly A moderate-sized bankrupt, tout chaud, for ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
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