dry-nurse

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard

You are doomed to dry-nurse Martin for life, whether he wants you or no.

From An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

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

Sir Charles did not approve this: it seemed unreasonable to turn a wet-nurse into a dry-nurse when that office was already occupied by a person her senior and more experienced.

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles