Swaddled ones

Usage examples of babes.

Ginevra was recently a mother so that many other young matrons had seen fit to bring their unweaned babes into the hall.

It is the virtuous Fathers of huttown who leave helpless babes in the tangles to die.

Tangling babes are raised by their own birth mothers or fathers, unless they are deeded away by voluntary agreement.

Jahna, that I am not to discuss the babes with you again until Beck returns from tentback.

When you go to the nursery and remove plugs and masks from our six girl babes, they will immediately begin taking clues from you.

So when other tanglings birthed molding babes, mockdirad claimed them and brought them to Yuba.

The tanglings who had taken pelt survived, every one of them, even though most of the other tangling babes and many of the adults died.

Huttown is putting half its live babes to the vines so they are tentback now.

How long before they decide to destroy their garbage babes along with their domestic monsters instead of setting them out for tentback?

And if something should remove Beck from the scene prematurely, if the dozen babes were left under the dubious guardianship of the pelts, what would they become with maturity?

When I was a boy they told me some fable about the other stars being suns like our own, with a million million other worlds circling them like ours, and perhaps men like ours on them, but I always thought that was a story to frighten babes and girl children!