nurserymaid
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Then I remembered that the dead nurserymaid was French.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
What a pity, that instead of a princess in distress we meet only a nurserymaid!
From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Our nurserymaid, a hizzie from the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire, was a confirmed and noted believer in dreams, omens, tatie-bogles, and sundry other kinds of apparitions.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
The nurserymaid had been left at home, Nanny was alone with them, Willie had lagged far behind, and had stuffed his mouth, and then 75 with some difficulty all his pockets, full of ripe blackberries.
From What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps by Randolph Caldecott
Dickens tells us of a nurserymaid who elaborated it into "If you do that, angels wont never love you."
From Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw
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