‘No other radiation-induced lesions were evident on the skin of any of the other animals exposed as sucklings.’
‘From the mouths of babes and sucklings You established strength.’
‘Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings come these questions and this woman, this survivor said, ‘I managed to make a hole in the back of the gas chamber and escape’.’
‘In some cases, families sent their infants to live with wet nurses in the country - but sucklings might not survive if the wet nurses favoured their own babies.’
‘The roast suckling pig is reason for those who crave this dish to hunger for Tuesdays, the only day they serve it.’
‘Roast suckling pig might evoke the same lip-smacking if it wasn't such a chintzy portion.’
‘For Freud, what is ‘primitive’ is not savage society, however, but infantile sexuality, the instinctive and libidinal attachment of a suckling child to its mother.’
‘The foie gras is thick and lusty, the wild-bass tartare tasty but cut too chunky, the suckling pig good but too oily.’
‘The tongue of the suckling infant cleaves to its palate for thirst; young children beg for bread, no one extends it to them.’
‘The crackling roast suckling pig may divide your table; it's nasty to some, but to others, each bite echoes the sound of maracas.’
‘Long rows of food stalls were set up to feed the visitors, which included a variety of Thai food, roast turkey and suckling pig fresh from the grill.’
‘But where else could you take a group of friends to share a whole roast suckling pig, which you might have preceded with duck liver on toast?’
‘One sow with hundreds of suckling piglets - the great mother teat for the world.’
‘They come bearing gifts, a whole roasted suckling pig, delicacies like bird's nest soup and abalone and sweets.’
‘Auriga is depicted by a charioteer who holds a goat in his left arm and some suckling kids in his lap.’
‘My first dinner there is on a Monday, and the menu lists suckling pig as a plat du jour, available only on weekends.’
‘On Sundays both locations have lechon - the whole roasted suckling pig that's a staple at Filipino galas - with spoon-tender flesh and crisp, burnished skin.’
‘Delightful, but time-consuming in preparation (there was no way we would have remembered to call ahead 12 hours in advance to warn them we wanted to eat the whole roast suckling, Laotian-style).’
‘Saul did the same thing at Amalek: ‘Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling.’’
‘And being the over-the-top Chinese parents they are, they had a whole suckling pig roasting on a spit.’