dry-nurse
Example Sentences
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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.
As Walderhurst is short of female relatives, it would have fallen to me to decently dry-nurse you.
From Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)
In one sit the servants And band of musicians, Most busily playing; The second one groans 140 'Neath a mountainous wet-nurse, Who dandles a baby, A withered old dry-nurse, A motionless body Of ancient retainers.
From Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? by Soskice, Juliet M.
If the traders require a dry-nurse system, let them formulate one in place of the one sketched above.
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
It looks as if Mr Brass Hat over there is going to dry-nurse me.
From On the Heels of De Wet by James, Lionel
