dry-nurse
Example Sentences
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As Walderhurst is short of female relatives, it would have fallen to me to decently dry-nurse you.
From Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)
Seems like you’ll have to appoint a dry-nurse to look after the poor baby, or else he may freeze to death in the night.”
From The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol by Carter, Herbert
I am not going to dry-nurse a girl at the age of fifty-four.
From Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)
At last, however, she relented, and concluded to remain on earth as dry-nurse to Mr. Bassett.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles
You are doomed to dry-nurse Martin for life, whether he wants you or no.
From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
