dry-nurse

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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

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

Sir Charles did not approve this: it seemed unreasonable to turn a wet-nurse into a dry-nurse when that office was already occupied by a person her senior and more experienced.

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles

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.)

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