dry-nurse
Example Sentences
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Sir Charles did not approve this: it seemed unreasonable to turn a wet-nurse into a dry-nurse when that office was already occupied by a person her senior and more experienced.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles
I’m not going to drive bullocks, or dry-nurse a flock of sheep, for any man.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Beach, Charles A.
It looks as if Mr Brass Hat over there is going to dry-nurse me.
From On the Heels of De Wet by James, Lionel
If the traders require a dry-nurse system, let them formulate one in place of the one sketched above.
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
I don’t want to dry-nurse you, nor are you the man to let me, but two heads are better than one, and you may sometimes be glad of a hint.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Willis, Herbert
