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

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

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

It was somewhat comical to watch him eyeing a stout young nurserymaid, who had brought a plump baby with her.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 12, 1890 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

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