fosterage
Example Sentences
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A great industrial system has been built up in this country under the fosterage of the Government, behind a wall of unproductive taxes.
From Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. Tumulty
The terms of fosterage seem to vary in different islands.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 323, July 19, 1828 by Various
He has come to claim, as gossip-law allows, the fosterage of MacWilliam's son.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
His son Brian had, in accordance with an old Irish custom, passed his boyhood in "fosterage" at the court of Callaghan, King of Cashel, in East Munster.
From Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Sir Nigel Campbell, as all Highland chiefs did, sent his son to a farmer’s family for fosterage.
From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt
