fosterage
Example Sentences
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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
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
There was fosterage for affection, for payment and for a literary education.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
I was always a dependent thing, wanting fosterage and support.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
When Mardas saw Gharib his reason fled, and he said to him, "O my son, I am under thy protection: so deliver me in right of my fosterage of thee!"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
