dry-nurse
Example Sentences
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Say, had the Court no better place to choose For thee, than make a dry-nurse of thy Muse?
From Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) by Melville, Lewis
In one sit the servants And band of musicians, Most busily playing; The second one groans 140 'Neath a mountainous wet-nurse, Who dandles a baby, A withered old dry-nurse, A motionless body Of ancient retainers.
From Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? by Soskice, Juliet M.
With a Konigseck to dry-nurse him, may not Royal Highness, luck favoring, do very well?
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas
Yet I am no novice in my duties as dry-nurse.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
"What else besides being dry-nurse to the king of the Amalekites?"
From Jimgrim and Allah's Peace by Mundy, Talbot
