fosterage

Example Sentences

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He felt that he was hardly of the one blood with them but stood to them rather in the mystical kinship of fosterage, fosterchild and fosterbrother.

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James

The terms of fosterage seem to vary in different islands.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 323, July 19, 1828 by Various

His son Brian had, in accordance with an old Irish custom, passed his boyhood in "fosterage" at the court of Callaghan, King of Cashel, in East Munster.

From Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Brooks, Elbridge Streeter

A great industrial system has been built up in this country under the fosterage of the Government, behind a wall of unproductive taxes.

From Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Tumulty, Joseph P.

However, by the Celtic custom of fosterage the infant is intrusted to Sir Ector as his dalt, or foster-child, and Uther falls in battle.

From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew