Unweaned

Defence lobbyists such as the Conference of Defence Associations -- largely composed of reserve and retired officers -- were dismissed as special-interest grumblers or as corporatist interests unweaned from the public udder. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Although she makes the product near her shop in Belmont, Mass., the prerequisite culture harkens from her homeland where the rennet is found in the tummies of unweaned lambs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Do you think me foolish as a babe unweaned, not to know this? ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

In the U.S. Congress, the final Farm Bill enacted into law in 2008 banned the import of young dogs from foreign puppy mills -- stopping the long-distance transport of unweaned puppies from China, Mexico, Russia, and other countries. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I soon came to learn that Shelly was not the unweaned kitten I assumed her to be. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They drew the line at unweaned babies until they opened their own infants section in 1934, but they provided health information to immigrant women by visiting them and speaking to them in Yiddish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That the food fetish has its erotic component is suggested by the means of poison — Amanita phalloides — and by the way Merricat so totally depends upon her older sister as a food provider, as if she were an unweaned infant and not a "great child" grown into an adult. ❋ Oates, Joyce Carol (2009)

So, as soon as I was born, my father tried to end again the hapless life he had given, deeming me his foe, for it was fated he should die at my hand; so he sent me still unweaned to make a pitiful meal for beasts, but I escaped from that. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The lady was blue, and in great pain from cramp, and the poor unweaned infant was roaring for the nourishment which had failed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The tiny members of unweaned children and the grown members of young men are still the same members. ❋ Argent (2006)

In so far as the family as an institution turns women into darling little slaves and men into their chief providers and unweaned dependents, the problem of a satisfactory marriage remains incapable of purely private solution. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He had, he felt reasonably sure, gone too far, blundered through private realms of allegiance and unweaned faith. ❋ John Dalton (2004)

Jem came up along the edge of the dance floor—he the solar center of this never-leaving, the rest of them spinning in his orbit of nostalgia, his scarredknuckle sentimentality, his bullying and unweaned devotion to the old ways of the Town. ❋ Chuck Hogan (2004)

The process of disfigurement begins at the age of five, when some of the sufferers are yet unweaned. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Her boy was five years old, and was still unweaned. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)