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
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
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
“No fear,” answered Higson, “I will watch over them as carefully as a hen does her chickens, or a nurserymaid the half-dozen small children committed to her care.”
From The Three Lieutenants by Archibald Webb
It is not to be supposed that Gertrude watched all this with no thought beyond the little nurserymaid.
From Christie Redfern's Troubles by Edward Barnard Lintott
