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fledgling

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fledgling, fledgeling
a young bird that has just fledged


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It was a great deal to ask of a fledgling morality that was yet scarcely cognizant of its untried wings; but even as the man wavered between right and wrong there crept into his mind the one great and burning question of his life--had he a soul?
He would hear that from every one, and his heart would grow hard, and he would shiver in vain with the cold, like some poor little fledgling that has fallen out of the nest.
Pumblechook, apostrophizing the fowl in the dish, "when you was a young fledgling, what was in store for you.
 
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