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 now it had been of little use to take a dry-nurse in her place, for Andree did not cease shrieking from morning till night.

From Fruitfulness by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Say, had the Court no better place to choose For thee, than make a dry-nurse of thy Muse?

From Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) by Melville, Lewis

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

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.