fosterage
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He has come to claim, as gossip-law allows, the fosterage of MacWilliam's son.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
O my son, for the sake of my fosterage of thee and my service to thee, spare this young lady, for indeed she has done nothing deserving of death.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
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 Stephen Lucius Gwynn
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 T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
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 Joseph P. Tumulty
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