What is "girlchild"

Usage examples of "girlchild".

She had a natural way with animals, a sensitivity, that extended to all living creatures, developed along with her medical skills, baa had fostered it, seen it as an extension of her own compassion that had impelled her to pick up a strange-looking girlchild because she was hurt and hungry.

Next to her sat the sallow, quiet girlchild whom Alain had identified as Tallia, daughter of Sabella and Berengar.

The girlchild, Ermengard, was led away in the company of the new biscop of Autun.

Emperor Egon and the imperial court were most pleased, he says, when he told them of the fact that no Whyffler woman has ever been delivered of a girlchild for nigh on two centuries.

For the same reason I became a model girlchild, modest and quiet, industrious and obedient.

And now, almost without warning, certainly without logic or even common sense, this pathetic girlchild was to be transformed into a woman, fully adult by law and by custom!

After that there wasn't another girlchild behind the p'natti save Mavin, and she's only now maybe coming of age or maybe not.

What was required was for the next few groups of Purdy girlchildren to spend their Granny School time spread all round this planet, clear away from the constant expectation of the grown-up Purdys that they would always fail in whatever they did.

As soon as they had made my body incapable of siring girlchildren, the Cranning call began.

Time had passed, and either some of the girlchildren had blossomed into nubility or the beach fauna had benefited from some turnover.

Any rabbit-killing Comanche who thinks even a Kiowa girlchild is afraid of him had better stop dreaming and wake up!