fosterage

Example Sentences

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A great industrial system has been built up in this country under the fosterage of the Government, behind a wall of unproductive taxes.

From Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Tumulty, Joseph P.

Rejoined Aslan, "O Commander of the Faithful, he is no father of mine, save by right of fosterage; my father was none other than Ala al-Din Abu al Shamat."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Connected apparently with the tribal sentiment were the strange customs of fosterage and gossipred.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

Irish Memories shows incidentally how great a part this fosterage played in the Ross of yesterday—that family with its multitude of children was bound to the countryside by all the "Nursies."

From Irish Books and Irish People by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

The Celtic custom of fosterage is overlooked, and Merlin gives the child to Anton, not as the customary dalt, but to preserve the babe from danger.

From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew