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
"They'll be looking for a bridegroom for her soon," said the nurserymaid.
From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Baring, Maurice
It is not to be supposed that Gertrude watched all this with no thought beyond the little nurserymaid.
From Christie Redfern's Troubles by Lintott, Edward Barnard
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 Shaw, Bernard
“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 Webb, Archibald
