1 You were attached to each other from your earliest infancy; you studied together, and appeared, in dispositions and tastes, entirely suited to one another.
2 You well know, Victor, that our union had been the favourite plan of your parents ever since our infancy.
3 Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE 4 This lady was one of my nearest relations, an orphan from her infancy, and under the guardianship of my father.
5 I derived from this, that Joe's education, like Steam, was yet in its infancy.
6 Looking back, as I was saying, into the blank of my infancy, the first objects I can remember as standing out by themselves from a confusion of things, are my mother and Peggotty.
7 From my earliest infancy she seems to have been always employed in that class of needlework, and never by any chance in any other.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON 8 The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY 9 I had known that tune in my infancy, but it had long since passed out of my mind.
10 That was the cot of my infancy; an old egg-box.
11 Not very dear, however, when you deserted him in his infancy, and left him to the brutality of a drunken grandmother.
12 This is the first October that she has passed in the country since her infancy.
13 'He says they died in his infancy, your worship,' replied the officer: hazarding the usual reply.
14 The animals were in the direct line of his path, but that the child thought little of; he had played round the fetlocks of horses from his infancy.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 15 Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.