"Newborn infant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the wide extension of the belief that the cutting of the filet, or frein, the frenum, or "bridle" of the tongue of the newborn infant facilitates, or makes possible, articulate speech. According to M. Sebillot, the cutting of the sublet, as it is called, is quite general in parts of Brittany (Haute Bretagne), and M. Moisset states that in the Yonne it is the ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... the little cell-like stone chamber where Queen Mary had given birth to her son, afterwards James VI. She read the pathetic prayer carved on the stone tablet above the bedstead, and said to have been composed by the unhappy queen in behalf of her newborn infant. ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth |
