fosterage

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If thou wouldst nurse him till he comes to the measure of youth, then whatsoever woman saw thee should envy thee; such gifts of fosterage would my mother give thee.”

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

John Loptson of Oddi, the grandson of Sæmund the Wise, took him into fosterage.

From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson

Rejoined Aslan, "O Commander of the Faithful, he is no father of mine, save by right of fosterage; my father was none other than Ala al-Din Abu al Shamat."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

Indeed, I repent me of what was done by me to her, for that, in any case, she is my nurse and hath over me the right of fosterage.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir