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

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

Our nurserymaid, a hizzie from the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire, was a confirmed and noted believer in dreams, omens, tatie-bogles, and sundry other kinds of apparitions.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

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

I won’t be a nurserymaid, nor a lady’s-maid, far less a lady’s companion, or a mantua-maker, or a straw-bonnet maker, or a taker-in of plain work. 

From Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn