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

I won’t be a nurserymaid, nor a lady’s-maid, far less a lady’s companion, or a mantua-maker, or a straw-bonnet maker, or a taker-in of plain work. 

From Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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

"They'll be looking for a bridegroom for her soon," said the nurserymaid.

From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Baring, Maurice

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