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

It was somewhat comical to watch him eyeing a stout young nurserymaid, who had brought a plump baby with her.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 12, 1890 by Various

“No fear,” answered Higson, “I will watch over them as carefully as a hen does her chickens, or a nurserymaid the half-dozen small children committed to her care.”

From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald

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

From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Baring, Maurice

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