dry-nurse

Example Sentences

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Seems like you’ll have to appoint a dry-nurse to look after the poor baby, or else he may freeze to death in the night.”

From The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol by Carter, Herbert

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.

Meantime the first lieutenant had sent for Paul Pringle, and, knowing how thoroughly he could be trusted, had given him his instructions to look after Mr Nott—in other words, to act as his dry-nurse.

From True Blue by Kingston, William Henry Giles

I am not going to dry-nurse a girl at the age of fifty-four.

From Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)

I don't envy Hignett if he has to dry-nurse the Gnome's commander.

From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard