Thesaurus / wet nurse

wet nurse

synonyms for wet nurse

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There were other children beside, and two nurse-maids followed, looking disagreeable and resigned.

He turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.

And sure enough when Sunday came, and the pencil was restored to him, he promptly showed nurse his picture.

Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.

Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!

A small boy of three years and nine months on receiving from his nurse the familiar order, "Come here!"

Here he can inspect what he sees, say the reflection of the face of his mother or nurse, and compare it at once with the original.

The farmer told him it was six miles; "but," he added, "you must ride sharp, or you will get a wet jacket before you reach it."

For God's sake write and persuade him to go to Davos at once—and picture the delights of a pretty and devoted nurse.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

No; they shall stay at home, and never learn anything, sooner than go and get wet.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985