fosterage

Example Sentences

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Sir Nigel Campbell, as all Highland chiefs did, sent his son to a farmer’s family for fosterage.

From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by Ebbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel)

I was always a dependent thing, wanting fosterage and support.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

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.

O my son, by the rights of my fosterage and by my long service to thee, I conjure thee pardon this young lady, for indeed she hath done nothing deserving such doom.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Conary would not condemn them to death, as the people begged him to do, but spared them for the sake of his kinship in fosterage.

From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)