单词 | dry-nurse |
例句 | If the traders require a dry-nurse system, let them formulate one in place of the one sketched above. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Pitt had compared Robinson to a jack-boot; but personal opinions vary according to points of view; Sir Thomas might be contemptible as a leader, but useful as a dry-nurse. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z I’m not going to drive bullocks, or dry-nurse a flock of sheep, for any man. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z You are doomed to dry-nurse Martin for life, whether he wants you or no. An Unknown Lover Some contended that he had been dry-nurse so long as to have acquired the baby-lingo by incessant practice. Black Forest Village Stories Seems like you’ll have to appoint a dry-nurse to look after the poor baby, or else he may freeze to death in the night.” The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol I don’t want to dry-nurse you, nor are you the man to let me, but two heads are better than one, and you may sometimes be glad of a hint. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 Brighteye listened intently to the faint, unmistakable family noises issuing therefrom, and then, like a thoughtful dry-nurse, went off to find for his mate a tender white root of horse-tail grass. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain 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. True Blue It looks as if Mr Brass Hat over there is going to dry-nurse me. On the Heels of De Wet Yet I am no novice in my duties as dry-nurse. Social Life in the Insect World I am not going to dry-nurse a girl at the age of fifty-four. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" What man of your acquaintance could turn dry-nurse—tend even his own babes twelve hours out of the twenty-four? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Say, had the Court no better place to choose For thee, than make a dry-nurse of thy Muse? Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) "What else besides being dry-nurse to the king of the Amalekites?" Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Thank you—to play the dry-nurse to three starving brats. The Saint's Tragedy As Walderhurst is short of female relatives, it would have fallen to me to decently dry-nurse you. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" I don't envy Hignett if he has to dry-nurse the Gnome's commander. Traffics and Discoveries In one sit the servants And band of musicians, Most busily playing; The second one groans 140 'Neath a mountainous wet-nurse, Who dandles a baby, A withered old dry-nurse, A motionless body Of ancient retainers. Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? 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. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 I shrieked, for I knew her to be the dry-nurse of that detested Imp, DESPOTISM. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey At last, however, she relented, and concluded to remain on earth as dry-nurse to Mr. Bassett. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day Then Tasso, with his enchanted forests and his other improbabilities; are they more than childish tales? tales, too, not in fancy to be compared with those of that venerable dry-nurse, Mother Bunch. The Life of Lord Byron And so with his suite— With the three little Barins, The wet-nurse, the dry-nurse, The ancient retainers, The woolly white poodles,— Along through the hayfields Proceeds the Pomyéshchick. Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? And now it had been of little use to take a dry-nurse in her place, for Andree did not cease shrieking from morning till night. Fruitfulness With a Konigseck to dry-nurse him, may not Royal Highness, luck favoring, do very well? History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 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. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day And then the procession, The three little Barins, The wet-nurse, the dry-nurse, 240 The ancient retainers, The woolly white poodles, Moves onward to lunch. Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? |
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