Egad I have a dry-nurse too, but I never looked into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

What man of your acquaintance could turn dry-nurse -- tend even his own babes twelve hours out of the twenty-four?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference

All morning with thy dry-nurse; all the evening in formal fine company; and all day long afraid of Old Daddy in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

As to Moore, no one now ventured to inquire about him: Mrs. Horsfall had him at dry-nurse: it was she who was to do for him; and the general conjecture now ran that she did for him accordingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

Thank you -- to play the dry-nurse to three starving brats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saint's Tragedy] Reference

I shrieked, for I knew her to be the dry-nurse of that detested Imp, DESPOTISM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference

If my soul be too old to be a mother of goodness, Lord, make it but a dry-nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.] Reference

To prune feeble plants and shrubs is like acting the part of dry-nurse to a sickly orphan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

At last, however, she relented, and concluded to remain on earth as dry-nurse to Mr. Bassett.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day] Reference

Snookes would declare that the old quartermaster who kept it with me was my dry-nurse, and that I was a mere make-believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [My First Cruise and Other stories] Reference

Sir Charles did not approve this: it seemed unreasonable to turn a wet-nurse into a dry-nurse when that office was already occupied by a person her senior and more experienced.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day] Reference

He knew that if I went to the grave, he must go to work; and he now used himself to perform the office of dry-nurse to me, taking me to the spring, and allowing no one to dip me but himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference

Meantime the first lieutenant had sent for Paul Pringle, and, knowing how thoroughly he could be trusted, had given him his instructions to look after Mr Nott -- in other words, to act as his dry-nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Blue] Reference

But it seemed to me that the Greenwich pensioners are the petted children of the nation, and that the government is their dry-nurse, and that the old men themselves have a childlike consciousness of their position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches] Reference

"What else besides being dry-nurse to the king of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference

Think I ain't learned my ABC's about my dry-nurse yet? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today] Reference

‘But am I not of the House of Eorl, a shieldmaiden and not a dry-nurse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

H.A. Lawrence, a man of tried business capacity and great character, to Mudros to-day as dry-nurse. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gallipoli Diary, Volume I] Reference

“a dry-nurse ... an old he-goat,” and wished an apoplexy might carry her off soon after the wedding ceremony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Tales of Old Strasbourg] Reference

"Don't you believe it, my friend -- that's the sort to give 'em -- some'un who will sort of dry-nurse 'em -- feed em -- mind 'em.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference

"Don't you believe it, my friend -- that's the sort to give 'em -- some'un who will sort of dry-nurse 'em -- feed 'em -- mind 'em.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference

Why, then, he is an old dog, that’s all I can say; and pray are you to obey your dry-nurse too, this same, and what’s his name — Mr. Harte?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

'been a led-captain to the Dukes of Richmond and Grafton, used to be sent to auctions for them, and to walk in the parks with their daughters, and once went dry-nurse in Holland with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1] Reference

And the wrinkled old dry-nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?] Reference

My dry-nurse had not come alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bull From The Sea]

Nor Fez, dry-nurse of lions, fed35.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 22. To Sally by John Quincy Adams. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

And suckle armies, and dry-nurse the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2] Reference

For thee, than make a dry-nurse of thy Muse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)] Reference

For triee, than make a dry-nurse of thy Muse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference

Yet I am no novice in my duties as dry-nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference

To dry-nurse in the parlor, to pay off the rent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

The wet-nurse, the dry-nurse, 240.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?] Reference

Why I should have to dry-nurse you ----! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path to Honour] Reference