fosterage

Example Sentences

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She is my sister by fosterage and this is how it came about.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Connected apparently with the tribal sentiment were the strange customs of fosterage and gossipred.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

Conary would not condemn them to death, as the people begged him to do, but spared them for the sake of his kinship in fosterage.

From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

The Celtic custom of fosterage is overlooked, and Merlin gives the child to Anton, not as the customary dalt, but to preserve the babe from danger.

From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew

John Loptson of Oddi, the grandson of Sæmund the Wise, took him into fosterage.

From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson