fosterage
Example Sentences
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It tainted the blood of all who gave their children into fosterage with Irish women, and penalised the usage of Irish dress and customs.
From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Robert Lloyd Praeger
There still remains in the Hebrides, though it is passing fast away, the custom of fosterage.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 323, July 19, 1828 by Various
Rejoined Aslan, "O Commander of the Faithful, he is no father of mine, save by right of fosterage; my father was none other than Ala al-Din Abu al Shamat."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
So he went before the King and said, "If thou art willing, Cormac, I would gladly have one of thy sons in fosterage."
From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid
Irish Memories shows incidentally how great a part this fosterage played in the Ross of yesterday—that family with its multitude of children was bound to the countryside by all the "Nursies."
From Irish Books and Irish People by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
