dry-nurse

Example Sentences

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

From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard

And so with his suite—   With the three little Barins, The wet-nurse, the dry-nurse,   The ancient retainers, The woolly white poodles,— Along through the hayfields   Proceeds the Pomyéshchick.

From Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? by Soskice, Juliet M.

And then the procession, The three little Barins, The wet-nurse, the dry-nurse, 240   The ancient retainers, The woolly white poodles,   Moves onward to lunch.

From Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? by Soskice, Juliet M.

Then Tasso, with his enchanted forests and his other improbabilities; are they more than childish tales? tales, too, not in fancy to be compared with those of that venerable dry-nurse, Mother Bunch. 

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

Don't you believe it, my friend—that's the sort to give 'em—some'un who will sort of dry-nurse 'em—feed em—mind 'em.

From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Cournos, John