dry-nurse

Example Sentences

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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

"Where's yore dry nurse Dingwell?" broke in the ex-convict bitterly.

From The Sheriff's Son by Raine, William MacLeod

Tom Crauford had the master’s child to dry nurse: he was only two years old: Tom let him fall, not intentionally, but the poor child was a cripple in consequence of it for life.

From Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer by Marryat, Frederick

"Good Heaven!" thought Hamilton, "is it not enough to be dry nurse to a nation?"

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

“I don’t mean a dry nurse, you know, old chappie, though you said, you were ‘dry’ just now,” replied Larkyns, laughing at his own joke.

From Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant by Greene, John B.