fosterage
Example Sentences
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A child in fosterage was reared and educated suitably for the position it was destined to fill in life.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
When Mardas saw Gharib his reason fled, and he said to him, "O my son, I am under thy protection: so deliver me in right of my fosterage of thee!"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
If thou wouldst nurse him till he comes to the measure of youth, then whatsoever woman saw thee should envy thee; such gifts of fosterage would my mother give thee.”
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew
Indeed, I repent me of what was done by me to her, for that, in any case, she is my nurse and hath over me the right of fosterage.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
John Loptson of Oddi, the grandson of Sæmund the Wise, took him into fosterage.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
