nurserymaid

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Then I remembered that the dead nurserymaid was French.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Dickens tells us of a nurserymaid who elaborated it into "If you do that, angels wont never love you."

From Treatise on Parents and Children by Shaw, Bernard

Of the two things, it is a thousand times better that they should be attended by a nurserymaid in their infancy than by a feeble, timid, inefficient matron in their youth.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

Our nurserymaid, a hizzie from the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire, was a confirmed and noted believer in dreams, omens, tatie-bogles, and sundry other kinds of apparitions.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

They made people observe Sunday rigorously, would not let a nurserymaid walk out in the fields with children for recreation on that day.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles