fosterage
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I was always a dependent thing, wanting fosterage and support.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
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
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
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 Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Sir Nigel Campbell, as all Highland chiefs did, sent his son to a farmer’s family for fosterage.
From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt
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