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Definition of the day : « dry-nurse »
- As in nurse : verb give milk, usually from breast
- Keep the nurse here as dry-nurse so that she may not carry the infection elsewhere.
- Extract from : « Three Plays by Brieux » by Eugne Brieux
- You are doomed to dry-nurse Martin for life, whether he wants you or no.
- Extract from : « An Unknown Lover » by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- “He appears to be a kind of dry-nurse to you,” said the judge, rising.
- Extract from : « Jupiter Lights » by Constance Fenimore Woolson
- I am not going to dry-nurse a girl at the age of fifty-four.
- Extract from : « Emily Fox-Seton » by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- At last, however, she relented, and concluded to remain on earth as dry-nurse to Mr. Bassett.
- Extract from : « A Terrible Temptation » by Charles Reade
- To prune feeble plants and shrubs is like acting the part of dry-nurse to a sickly orphan.
- Extract from : « Summer in a Garden, and Calvin, A Study Of Character » by Charles Dudley Warner
- With a Konigseck to dry-nurse him, may not Royal Highness, luck favoring, do very well?
- Extract from : « History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XV. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle
- If the traders require a dry-nurse system, let them formulate one in place of the one sketched above.
- Extract from : « West African studies » by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
- My dry-nurse never desires anything of me that is not reasonable, and for my own good; and therefore I like to be with him.
- Extract from : « The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son » by The Earl of Chesterfield
- The gaunt weaver was dry-nurse at Cauldstaneslap, and the bairns loved him dearly.
- Extract from : « The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) » by Robert Louis Stevenson