nurserymaid

Example Sentences

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Then I remembered that the dead nurserymaid was French.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

What a pity, that instead of a princess in distress we meet only a nurserymaid!

From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Dickens tells us of a nurserymaid who elaborated it into "If you do that, angels wont never love you."

From Treatise on Parents and Children by Shaw, Bernard

"And as different from the little one as cloth from silk," said the nurserymaid.

From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Baring, Maurice

Of the two things, it is a thousand times better that they should be attended by a nurserymaid in their infancy than by a feeble, timid, inefficient matron in their youth.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various