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

One of the laundresses let me have her daughter for nurserymaid, and our small establishment at Camp MacDowell moved on smoothly, if not with elegance.

From Vanished Arizona by Summerhayes, Martha

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

They made people observe Sunday rigorously, would not let a nurserymaid walk out in the fields with children for recreation on that day.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

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