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

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

What a pity, that instead of a princess in distress we meet only a nurserymaid!

From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

One summer night, after she had been put to bed, her nurse and the nurserymaid were sitting by the nursery window darning some stockings.

From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Baring, Maurice

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