Verb (used with object), : The warden is accused of wet-nursing his prisoners.    From Dictionary.com. 

I didn't engage to wet-nurse its infants with bank accounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A GOBOTO NIGHT] Reference

I built it for my sainted wet-nurse who took one look at it and died.    From Wordnik.com.  [The mission song]

“Miss Edwarde says that perhaps the wet-nurse has no milk,” he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

The wet-nurse was in her late teens, and her own baby had been stillborn.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

Both his wet-nurse and my sister's wanted to stay, to be near their families.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

“My mother was a wet-nurse,” he went on to volunteer, and I her only child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Russia] Reference

My mother was wet-nurse to the Adamses and they thought the world and all of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6] Reference

One gift was the use of a wet-nurse for Prince Urras for as long as he needed one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Relentless]

“You must ask the doctor to examine the wet-nurse,” said Alexey Alexandrovitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

And so was I, with a navel infection; my wet-nurse was staying with me in the hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

I wanted to be a wet-nurse, but people wouldn't have me: 'Thou art too thin,' they said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls] Reference

I've got to wet-nurse the snotty-nosed illegitimate son of our Chief-bloody-Constable. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost at Christmas]

Please don't expect Iain or anyone else to constantly wet-nurse you and change your nappies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Deal: Not a Success] Reference

There was no social security or unemployment benefit for someone in the position of my wet-nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

Jin-ming's wet-nurse was very fond of him, and she asked my mother if she could keep him with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

We found him a good wet-nurse; his mother had not much milk, and fretted for the wild hills and me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bull From The Sea]

It is not necessary that an officer wet-nurse his men in order to serve well in the role of counsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference

It is also Makrooh to entrust the child to a wet-nurse who has given birth to an illegitimate child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friday, February 29, 2008] Reference

With the emperor's wet-nurse and other people, mostly of the middle class, this man formed a powerful group.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

'Naja will not even let me go out hawking or fishing without Asmor to wet-nurse me,' he complained bitterly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

My daughter had just had her first baby and had taken him to a wet-nurse at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges … Yes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret Stonewalled]

The only person to talk to him honestly about his acting is Otoku, the wet-nurse of his adoptive father’s child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top 5 Overlooked Films of all Times] Reference

If the infant is older, or if a wet-nurse cannot be obtained, some of the substitutes for fresh cow's milk may be tried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses] Reference

Incidentally, we have learned that there were women in the sect whose permanent or temporary profession was that of wet-nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qumran.] Reference

My mother, my grandmother, my sister, and I, with my wet-nurse and the bodyguard, left Yibin before dawn one night at the end of June.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

Our contemporaries are wrong in stating that the individual to whom the post of wet-nurse has been assigned is nothing but a housemaid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841] Reference

She was the daughter of a barber and a wet-nurse, though she undoubtedly revised her background when she began meeting dukes and earls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aphra Behn (1640-1689)] Reference

She was feeding the little one when the post came in; they could not afford a wet-nurse now, and the child was being brought up by hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eve and David] Reference

Of great concern, too, was the question of the transmission of disease, and particularly venereal disease from the wet-nurse to the baby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wet Nursing in Victorian England] Reference

The wet-nurse ought to be in bed every night by ten o'clock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference

The wet-nurse was introduced at the time of the Edinburgh sojourn, immediately after.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defence of Harriet Shelley] Reference

But, suppose that you have no milk, and that no wet-nurse can be procured: what then?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference