fosterage
Example Sentences
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O my son, by the rights of my fosterage and by my long service to thee, I conjure thee pardon this young lady, for indeed she hath done nothing deserving such doom.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
A child in fosterage was reared and educated suitably for the position it was destined to fill in life.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
