dry-nurse

Example Sentences

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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.

Pitt had compared Robinson to a jack-boot; but personal opinions vary according to points of view; Sir Thomas might be contemptible as a leader, but useful as a dry-nurse.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

At last, however, she relented, and concluded to remain on earth as dry-nurse to Mr. Bassett.

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

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

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