dry-nurse
Example Sentences
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“A nice dry nurse you be!” said Jack Gedge.
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines
What would become of you, I wonder, if I wasn't to take you in to dry nurse?
From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Prest, Thomas Preskett
“I don’t mean a dry nurse, you know, old chappie, though you said, you were ‘dry’ just now,” replied Larkyns, laughing at his own joke.
From Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant by Greene, John B.
You'll be a dry nurse to a burro, and keep a hospital for infirm puppies, but you will fight game cocks.
From The Octopus : A story of California by Norris, Frank
"Good Heaven!" thought Hamilton, "is it not enough to be dry nurse to a nation?"
From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
