dry-nurse
Example Sentences
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Some contended that he had been dry-nurse so long as to have acquired the baby-lingo by incessant practice.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold
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.
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.
I don't envy Hignett if he has to dry-nurse the Gnome's commander.
From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard
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
