dry-nurse

Example Sentences

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Sir Charles did not approve this: it seemed unreasonable to turn a wet-nurse into a dry-nurse when that office was already occupied by a person her senior and more experienced.

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles

Thank you—to play the dry-nurse to three starving brats.

From The Saint's Tragedy by Kingsley, Charles

I’m not going to drive bullocks, or dry-nurse a flock of sheep, for any man.

From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Beach, Charles A.

Say, had the Court no better place to choose For thee, than make a dry-nurse of thy Muse?

From Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) by Melville, Lewis

And then the procession, The three little Barins, The wet-nurse, the dry-nurse, 240   The ancient retainers, The woolly white poodles,   Moves onward to lunch.

From Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? by Soskice, Juliet M.