dry-nurse

Example Sentences

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I might very well be dubbed: "Victor Hugo, Representative of the People and dry nurse."

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

The regiment, of course, is distributed among the ships, and the Fleet dry nurse 'em.

From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard

You must stop the nursing, and keep the woman here as a dry nurse, in order that she may not go away to carry the disease elsewhere.

From Damaged Goods; the great play "Les avaries" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author by Brieux, Eugène

I say, old Voules, I thought he was going to cut you altogether; but perhaps he’ll honour you by giving that yelping pup of his into your charge to dry nurse.

From The Rival Crusoes by Kingston, William Henry Giles

You set back there if you want to, and play dry nurse to your twins—your family scandal on one arm and your governor’s boom on the other.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman