dry-nurse
Example Sentences
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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
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.
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.
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
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.
