fosterage
Example Sentences
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Connected apparently with the tribal sentiment were the strange customs of fosterage and gossipred.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith
However, by the Celtic custom of fosterage the infant is intrusted to Sir Ector as his dalt, or foster-child, and Uther falls in battle.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
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
O my son, for the sake of my fosterage of thee and my service to thee, spare this young lady, for indeed she has done nothing deserving of death.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
It is said that Mananan mac Lir had a daughter who was given in fosterage to the Danaan prince Angus, whose fairy palace was at Brugh na Boyna.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
