fosterage
Example Sentences
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The terms of fosterage seem to vary in different islands.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 323, July 19, 1828 by Various
It tainted the blood of all who gave their children into fosterage with Irish women, and penalised the usage of Irish dress and customs.
From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Praeger, Robert Lloyd
His son Brian had, in accordance with an old Irish custom, passed his boyhood in "fosterage" at the court of Callaghan, King of Cashel, in East Munster.
From Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Brooks, Elbridge Streeter
Conary would not condemn them to death, as the people begged him to do, but spared them for the sake of his kinship in fosterage.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
There still remains in the Hebrides, though it is passing fast away, the custom of fosterage.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 323, July 19, 1828 by Various
