dry-nurse

Example Sentences

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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.

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.)

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

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

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