Hubert at times could not follow her mind, fledgeling though it was, in all its flights.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
Who has not heard the process repeated over and over again from the young fledgeling Counsel to the old "hardbitten" and experienced K.C.?
"Bardell v. Pickwick"
Percy Fitzgerald
Several days passed, and she had given up her fledgeling for lost, when one morning she saw amid the mail upon the professor's desk an envelope addressed to herself, and opening it found with astonishment that it was an acceptance of her sketch, enclosing a check for what seemed to her a large amount.
"Sara, a Princess"
Fannie E. Newberry