| In a little while, the Oryctes is a noisome mass on which the nurseling lies poisoned. |
| If the mother is not strong her nurseling will sometimes thrive better upon artificial food than on its natural nourishment. |
| Wynne looked at her nurseling for a long moment, then relented. |
| I must also be careful of its legs and mandibles, the least touch of which would rip open the nurseling. |
| Bloom stays with nurse a thought to send a kind word to happy mother and nurseling up there. |
| Would she be guilty of such inconceivable maternal aberration as to leave her nurseling without nourishment? |
