Word Finder - children

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A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)

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Go easy on him: he is but a child.

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(specifically) A female child, a girl.

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(with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; a son or daughter.

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My youngest child is forty-three this year.

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The thirteenth Lenormand card.

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A figurative offspring, particularly:

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A child of noble birth.

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The cognomen given to the oldest son prior to his taking his father's title.

A house without children is not a home.

They had two adopted children already.

The children will live just the same.

The school was more than a mile from their home, and the children trotted along as fast as their short legs could carry them.

Bad guys were everywhere and children running away.

You have your children in your home.

His children were crying for food.

What joy to talk with other children in my own language!

The room felt comfortable and the children were asleep.

I would like small children to be there.

The children; they're the important ones.

These children are learning it just as the first people who lived on the earth learned it in the beginning.

After I had learned a great many interesting things about the life and habits of the children of the sea--how in the midst of dashing waves the little polyps build the beautiful coral isles of the Pacific, and the foraminifera have made the chalk-hills of many a land--my teacher read me "The Chambered Nautilus," and showed me that the shell-building process of the mollusks is symbolical of the development of the mind.

The band again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving their seats, went up to "congratulate" the countess, and reached across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and with one another.

If there are children around, nothing pleases me so much as to frolic with them.

We can adopt children.

Children should be encouraged to read for the pure delight of it.

If God wants us to have children, it will happen.

Pierre went to the children, and the shouting and laughter grew still louder.

Mom and Dad had wanted children too.

He had always been responsible toward the children.

I thought then that I was "making up a story," as children say, and I eagerly sat down to write it before the ideas should slip from me.

My teacher says, if children learn to be patient and gentle while they are little, that when they grow to be young ladies and gentlemen they will not forget to be kind and loving and brave.

Japan must indeed be a paradise for children to judge from the great number of playthings which are manufactured there.

And indeed he only had to lie down, to fall asleep like a stone, and he only had to shake himself, to be ready without a moment's delay for some work, just as children are ready to play directly they awake.

After twenty or thirty years of marriage, they would still be alone together, whether or not they had any children.

About this problem of having children.

He had long ago accepted the fact that he would have no biological children.

He is sensitive about not being able to give you children.

At the census of 1904 over 500,000 persons (excluding young children), or 37% of the population, were returned as engaged in agriculture.

The enemy invariably dispersed before superior forces, and the removal of the women and children from the farms did not have the effect of disheartening the burghers as had been anticipated - it rather mended their vitality by relieving them of responsibility for their families' welfare.

Did they just not want children?

Men, women and children all smoke tobacco.

Chesterfield, who had no children by his wife, Melusina von Schulemberg, illegitimate daughter of George I., whom he married in 1733, adopted his godson, a distant cousin, named Philip Stanhope (1755-1815), as heir to the title and estates.

They declare that we are all the children of God, and therefore must consider ourselves as brothers and sisters.

This very moment she would choose Alex - but what about twenty years from now, when it was too late to have children?

She could go on feeling sorry for herself because she couldn't have children, or she could accept the cards that had been dealt her and settle for less than perfection.

And then when you said you didn't want to adopt children, I thought I didn't have a right to ask you.

Carmen wasn't the only one who wanted children so badly.

He'd known Tim his whole life and knew all of Tim's consorts and children by name, if not by sight.

Unlike the regular military, the political elite's security private forces were made up of children from the upper class to prevent the elite class from becoming polluted by the poor.

Another corner contained crates full of sleeping babies while older children sat reading antique books in the center of the room.

The children were monitored by a few teens, who sat in one corner laughing and talking.

You can send me overseas, like the elite do their unwanted children.

As my companions had children, I gave each an estate.

Ran out of estates after the fourteenth and stopped having children.

The streets of her city were no longer safe for women and children.

Parkside would remain untainted and a favored place to live and raise healthy, God fearing children who would become model citi­zens like those to whom he spoke.

I thought your children would be mine – or was it only me who wanted that so badly?

It wasn't his fault - he wanted children too.