What is "budling"

Usage examples of "budling".

Save your disputes until after we find out whether our new budling works!

True, she had chided her budder again and again for continuing to treat her like a budling when she believed she was grown-up enough to think for herself.

He had budded into a happy family, spent his childhood in a friendly and peaceful society, lapped in the warmth of a general approval, a society filled with immutable hierarchies that tucked every hatchling and every budling into a niche it would never quite break out of no matter what it did or felt, but also a society that accepted it without reservations, that cherished it and tolerated its rebellions, its idiosyncrasies.

They made shift to chant a star-blessing on the departing briqs, and the crowd settled into familiar responses even though a few budlings, too young to have seen a clear sky, were heard to ask fretfully what stars might be.

Rather, they had resigned themselves and their budlings to less than their share of the wonders of the modern world: houses that thought, scudders and floaters, falqon-mail that flew from continent to continent where pitchens had only skimmed, communications that no longer called for nervograps, recordimals offering faithful transcriptions of the greatest thinkers and entertainers, newsimals and scentimals and haulimals, and the rest.

She almost came to believe that there was no one in the whole of Slah, bar a clawful of budlings, who lacked a part to play in converting their vision into reality.

By day, in his deer shape, Brother Hart would go out and forage on green grass and budlings while his sister remained at home.

He considered budding himself several times in order to acquire new helpers and speed the task, but that would mean taking time out to train the budlings to the job, which could be counterproductive.

The critics were as eager as budlings to explore every aspect of this wonder they had been presented.

They made shift to chant a star-blessing on the departing briqs, and the crowd settled into familiar responses even though a few budlings, too young to have seen a clear sky, were heard to ask fretfully what stars might be.

Rather, they had resigned themselves and their budlings to less than their share of the wonders of the modern world: houses that thought, scudders and floaters, falqon-mail that flew from continent to continent where pitchens had only skimmed, communications that no longer called for nervograps, recordimals offering faithful transcriptions of the greatest thinkers and entertainers, newsimals and scentimals and haulimals, and the rest.

True, she had chided her budder again and again for continuing to treat her like a budling when she believed she was grown-up enough to think for herself.

If you did, you'd be working to ensure that even though we as individuals can't escape into space our budlings or their budlings may.

Some of your budlings might be allowed to live on, to plant buds themselves and to work with us toward building a new land.

I've got a scar where some young fool shone a burning-glass on my mantle when I was a budling.