Sucking Bottle

Who perceives not that a child certainly knows that a stranger is not its mother; that its sucking-bottle is not the rod, long before he knows that “it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be?” ❋ Unknown (2007)

The letters, it appears, are tedious; they would be more tedious still if I wasted my time upon such infantile and sucking-bottle details. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Notwithstanding the spoonfuls of milk and sugared water that were forced into their mouths, and the sucking-bottle that was used more or less in spite of the prohibition, they were dying of inanition. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)

The use of a sucking-bottle most nearly imitates the way in which nature designed the nursling to obtain its nourishment. ❋ Unknown (1859)

And here's another thing: they have begun to suck that sucking-bottle, to smoke tobacco. ❋ Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1850)

A military man will stick that same sucking-bottle under his moustache, between his lips, and emit smoke through his nostrils, his mouth, and even his ears -- and think himself a hero! ❋ Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1850)

To move into international rugby involves casting aside the sucking-bottle of system. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Parents ought to be sharply reprehended, who will not have their children come on by any strict method; but in this, as in all things, are so fond of making a noise in the world; and in such haste to compass their wishes, that they hurry them in publick e'er they have digested what they have read, and put children e'er they are well past their sucking-bottle, upon the good grace of speaking, than which even themselves confess, nothing is greater: ❋ 20-66 Petronius Arbiter (N/A)

Deliveringa grown-folks’ lecture to a sucking-bottle nursery! he lamented to Rogers.15 He threw the lecture away and wrote a revision. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

There are my horrid sons-in-law, for example; although one of them is a senator, and the other is some sort of a curator, they suck at the sucking-bottle also, -- and yet they regard themselves as clever men! ... " ❋ Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1850)