fosterage

Example Sentences

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He felt that he was hardly of the one blood with them but stood to them rather in the mystical kinship of fosterage, fosterchild and fosterbrother.

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Sir Nigel Campbell, as all Highland chiefs did, sent his son to a farmer’s family for fosterage.

From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by Ebbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel)

I was always a dependent thing, wanting fosterage and support.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

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 Payne, John