A changeling girl, age six, so shocked her new parents when she opened her mouth to speak that, thus frightened, they poured hot wax into each other's ears and never heard another sound.
It was the latter attribute that caused him to fall for the wrong woman, a shifty changeling who conned him into fronting a spice-mining scheme.
You mocking changeling -- fairy-born and human-bred!
Take you with her, pitiful changeling?
September is a changeling busy as a squirrel in a hickory tree, idle as a languid brook.
No matter how old or young, the object is to deceive the parents into think-ing that this changeling is actually their child.
And that minx, Catherine Linton, or Earnshaw, or however she was called — she must have been a changeling — wicked little soul!
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