nurserymaid

Example Sentences

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Then I remembered that the dead nurserymaid was French.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

"And as different from the little one as cloth from silk," said the nurserymaid.

From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Baring, Maurice

Of the two things, it is a thousand times better that they should be attended by a nurserymaid in their infancy than by a feeble, timid, inefficient matron in their youth.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

If you are a nurserymaid, attend to your duties; and do not presume to ape your elders.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

I won’t be a nurserymaid, nor a lady’s-maid, far less a lady’s companion, or a mantua-maker, or a straw-bonnet maker, or a taker-in of plain work. 

From Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn