nurserymaid
Example Sentences
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Then I remembered that the dead nurserymaid was French.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
The nurserymaid had been left at home, Nanny was alone with them, Willie had lagged far behind, and had stuffed his mouth, and then 75 with some difficulty all his pockets, full of ripe blackberries.
From What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps by Randolph Caldecott
It is not to be supposed that Gertrude watched all this with no thought beyond the little nurserymaid.
From Christie Redfern's Troubles by Edward Barnard Lintott
I won’t be a nurserymaid, nor a lady’s-maid, far less a lady’s companion, or a mantua-maker, or a straw-bonnet maker, or a taker-in of plain work.
From Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
One of the laundresses let me have her daughter for nurserymaid, and our small establishment at Camp MacDowell moved on smoothly, if not with elegance.
From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
