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

The nurserymaid had been left at home, Nanny was alone with them, Willie had lagged far behind, and had stuffed his mouth, and then 75 with some difficulty all his pockets, full of ripe blackberries.

From What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps by Caldecott, Randolph

They made people observe Sunday rigorously, would not let a nurserymaid walk out in the fields with children for recreation on that day.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

One of the laundresses let me have her daughter for nurserymaid, and our small establishment at Camp MacDowell moved on smoothly, if not with elegance.

From Vanished Arizona by Summerhayes, Martha

One summer night, after she had been put to bed, her nurse and the nurserymaid were sitting by the nursery window darning some stockings.

From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Baring, Maurice