dry-nurse

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Pitt had compared Robinson to a jack-boot; but personal opinions vary according to points of view; Sir Thomas might be contemptible as a leader, but useful as a dry-nurse.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

Brighteye listened intently to the faint, unmistakable family noises issuing therefrom, and then, like a thoughtful dry-nurse, went off to find for his mate a tender white root of horse-tail grass.

From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Rees, Alfred Wellesley

Thank you—to play the dry-nurse to three starving brats.

From The Saint's Tragedy by Kingsley, Charles

Then Tasso, with his enchanted forests and his other improbabilities; are they more than childish tales? tales, too, not in fancy to be compared with those of that venerable dry-nurse, Mother Bunch. 

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

And so with his suite—   With the three little Barins, The wet-nurse, the dry-nurse,   The ancient retainers, The woolly white poodles,— Along through the hayfields   Proceeds the Pomyéshchick.

From Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? by Soskice, Juliet M.