fosterage

Example Sentences

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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 Tumulty, Joseph P.

So he went before the King and said, "If thou art willing, Cormac, I would gladly have one of thy sons in fosterage."

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Reid, Stephen

She is my sister by fosterage and this is how it came about.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

O my son, by the rights of my fosterage and by my long service to thee, I conjure thee pardon this young lady, for indeed she hath done nothing deserving such doom.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I was always a dependent thing, wanting fosterage and support.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas