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He launched into a long speech about how he had volunteered to be on the program committee for some principals’ conference, so he didn’t have time to nursemaid me through Finance 101, whatever that was. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z
It was a good thing, then, that their nursemaids had been dead already. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
The nursemaid Milagros told on Yoyo telling the general that story, and her parents hit her very hard with a belt in the bathroom, with the shower on so no one could hear her screams. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
In June 1877, he and Emma, along with Frank, Bernard, and the baby’s nursemaid, made a pilgrimage to the great prehistoric monument Stonehenge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
Turning back to my old nursemaid, I ask her what’s uppermost on my mind. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z
“Well, someone with sense better nursemaid the lot of you young rascals. Put my chair on the wagon, but mind you don’t scratch it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
Doña Charito dipped her brush into a jar of water and made all manner of finicky, tidying up, tapping noises on the brim, like a nursemaid spooning mouthfuls for a difficult baby. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
“On the top of the hill near King Darzin’s palace there was a garden and here his many children and his chief followers’ children used to be taken to play by their mothers and nursemaids. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
She was sitting on a bench about a hundred yards to my left, sandwiched between two nursemaids with baby carriages. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z
She’d be in awful trouble, the nursemaid—she might even go to prison. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
“Oh, slaves of course. I had a black nursemaid. But I never needed anyone but Grandfather. He was — ” There were no words to explain Grandfather. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z
“We’ve gone from training and assisting the saviors of humankind to playing nursemaid? No thank you.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
She had given up her own child, a baby son, when her husband had died and she had come to our house to be my nursemaid. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
Once, a saucy nursemaid had informed me that, in embroidered linens with the lights off and the fans going, my fine de la Torre mother had gotten me no differently. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
She overheard one of the nursemaids trying to convince little Erny to put on a warm coat. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You want something?” said Gloria, eyes wide in an apparently artless complexity that fooled her huge “nursemaid” not at all. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
We children were forbidden to wander this coal shed area ever since the time Mundín and I had set off a firecracker just as the miniature general paraded by with his nursemaids. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
He should have kept a guard on them, but he'd deemed it more important to have men walking the walls and protecting the gates than to nursemaid a couple of children, one a cripple. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
The artist was discovered at the bottom of the yard drawing the nursemaid Milagros's boy with a brown and a gold and a purple crayon. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
In his view, “the ban on gruesome fairy tales, terrifying nursemaids and other standard sources of horror, has left most of the population” vulnerable to scary stories and situations. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z
When their squabbles reach a certain mother-annoying level, they are called away by their nursemaids, who sit on stools at the far end of the patio, a phalanx of starched white uniforms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
Often, when Lifetime traffics in true crime, it spins fables of women in peril, girls on the run, and demented nursemaids. A Lifetime Movie Nails the College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z
When Ann seeks work at age 14, the jobs listed at “the labor exchange” include “trainee shirt machinist, assistant nursemaid, restaurant cashier” and, of course, apprentice embroiderer. Review | How Queen Elizabeth’s wedding dress diverted war-torn England 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z
Dickens himself agreed, writing to his friend Wilkie Collins that young Saville must have come on his father "intriguing with the nursemaid". Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z
Barnum parading around an elderly black woman he'd illegally enslaved, trying to pass her off as George Washington's nursemaid. If Jussie Smollett is a hoaxster, what do we call Donald Trump? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z
In the annals of Barnum, the most ethically bankrupt spectacle of all was the exploitation of Joice Heth, a blind, toothless and emaciated black woman presented to gawkers as the 161-year-old nursemaid of George Washington. A Huckster for the Ages 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z
After the death of the love of his life, he took up with the nursemaid and, subsequently, the housekeeper, with whom he had a child out of wedlock. It’s the year of Rembrandt again, to the delight of museum audiences 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z
Among them are graduates of the first African Free School and members of the United States Colored Troops, as well as an African nursemaid who traveled around the world with a slave trader. Spare Times for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-14T00:06:20Z
The novel is narrated from Marcel’s point of view, but Marcel is at best a lens, an eyewitness to history, a stoic nursemaid and a reliable guide. Stepsisters, Lovers and Gender-Bending Artists, Now Celebrated in a Novel 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z
A posthumous Irish child, abandoned by his mother to a nursemaid, he was also an exasperated, petulant and insubordinate genius, an Anglican clergyman with an incurable sense of humiliation and gloom.  The man behind 'Gullivers Travels,' Johnathan Swift, is celebrated in a new biography 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z
His mother, reduced to a short-order cook and nursemaid, lives in a trailer in the garden. Bed by David Whitehouse ? review 2011-07-22T09:00:01Z
P. L. Travers’s English nursemaid brings her spoonful of sugar and bottomless satchel to the Banks family’s London home in this Disney fantasy starring Julie Andrews. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Mary Poppins’ and John Cena on ‘S.N.L.’ 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z
She would no longer play caretakers, nursemaids, stewards of other people’s emotional journeys. Delighted — and Disturbed — by Octavia Spencer’s Rage in ‘Ma’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z
She observes from the sidelines “The Crossing of the Red Sea,” accompanied by a nursemaid with an infant-in-arms, the Duchess herself hugely pregnant, her hand resting on her stomach. Review: Bronzino Emerges From Limbo 2010-11-16T08:30:00Z
She’d been working since she was 11 years old, first as a nursemaid during summer breaks, then as a cook for wealthier families. How the Daughter of Sharecroppers Revolutionized Preschoolers' Health 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z
Most women were kept in wealthy households, where they became domestic servants such as nursemaids or were kept for sexual purposes. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
Frances left school to work as a seamstress and nursemaid for a white Baltimore family that owned a bookshop. Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z
The sperm cells are mixed with “nursemaid” cells called Sertoli cells which protect the germ cells and promote their development. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
“Not play nursemaid to thousands and thousands of illegals. He would rather have them do their job, which is stopping them at the border.” Fealty to Trump defines Republican Senate primary in Arizona 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z
Instead, it raids another ant species’ colonies for workers that it enslaves to nursemaid its young. Let Us Now Praise Tiny Ants 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z
Women’s separation from the men of the court did not mean they were not influential, and wives, mothers, and even nursemaids often played a role in important political decisions. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
Gravity, an impatient professor and a sassy nursemaid hinder movers trying to deliver a player piano to an upstairs address. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z
Byrne and his ex-wife, Gia, who serves as both protector and nursemaid to Christiana and her alters, also are on the suspect list. Review: Dark times in East Long Beach as Joe Ide's IQ series returns 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z
They have taken them to family day care providers and left them at home with babysitters, nannies, and nursemaids, some of them undocumented workers.” Editorial Roundup: 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z
In the 1830s, in a young nation eager to connect to the past, Barnum toured with Joice Heth, an enslaved woman who claimed to be 161 years old and the former nursemaid to George Washington. Review | P.T. Barnum, the showman and grifter who held up a funhouse mirror to America 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z
It featured a woman, Joice Heth, who was advertised to be a hundred and sixty-one years old and the former nursemaid of George Washington. What P. T. Barnum Understood About America 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z
He enjoyed what he described as a “very pampered and protected life,” with nursemaids and private tutors and recalled meeting his parents “as if for a daily royal audience.” Charles Kuen Kao, Nobel laureate celebrated as father of fiber optics, dies at 84 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z
Maybe a lot of people wouldn’t guess it but you can be the most wonderful aunt, godmother, nursemaid, when the mood takes you. “Crazy They Call Me” 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z
Maybe it’s time Democrats stop playing compassionate nursemaid to the deathly policies of the GOP. Let Donald Trump Supporters Have What They Voted For 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z
Colvin’s Weekly Messenger denying that her husband arranged for their children’s nursemaid to have an affair with the Czar of Russia in exchange for diplomacy favorable to U.S. interests. Meet the Only First Lady Before Melania Trump Not to Have Been Born in the U.S. 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z
The trainer is your broker — and nursemaid — in this deal. So, you're buying a racehorse — better get your friends to pony up too 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z
A pretty blonde named Annie is disfigured because of Cash’s negligence, and winning a lawsuit and a few bucks isn’t enough to satisfy her sister/nursemaid, Jenny, who takes matters into her own hands. 'iZombie' recap: 'He Blinded Me...With Science' 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z
Congenitally unable to assume the role of nursemaid administering consolation, Mr. Koch barreled through with a customary orneriness that left him offending one important constituency after another. The Cause of a Mayor’s Problem Is His Affect 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z
They saw the sport as the perfect nursemaid to help them in the taxing task of rearing well-mannered children who are humble, honest, hard-working, and all named after cars. Maverick McNealy Makes His U.S. Open Debut, With Father as Caddie 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z
By Queen Victoria's reign, royal nursemaids and governesses were expected to exercise complete authority in the nursery and devote themselves entirely to their charges with very little time for themselves. Revolution in the royal nursery 2013-07-08T03:10:12Z
Globalization feels to them like a game of musical chairs, in which, when the music stops, all the seats are handed to others by nursemaid governments.” Why are terrorists so often men? 2013-04-25T11:45:00Z
“In other parts of the world and other times in history,” she said, “the traditional nursemaid was hired to breast-feed someone else’s child, and while a bond may grow, it was a job.” Q & A: Does Pumping Result in Reduced Breast Milk Production? 2012-08-20T20:25:44Z
Mabel was so bent upon fascinating the various patrons, and Henry was so obviously a success only with the unsentimental small boys, that she never once accused him of making eyes even at a nursemaid. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z
And, as nursemaid, she greedily picked up stray morsels of her little charges' education, as well as the manners and language of her employers. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z
Soon after this, she rose to be the head nursemaid. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z
The employment of feeble-minded women as domestics, factory operatives, laundresses, clerks, and nursemaids constitutes not only a nuisance to the general public, but a real source of inefficiency and danger to the community. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z
Well, I mean to say, though I was always fond of children I seemed to take more somehow to the house itself, and so I never got beyond being a nursemaid. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z
The toddlers, too, are out, under charge of happy nursemaids. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z
Because, at a period when such things were undreamed of, even in fiction, she rose from nursemaid to title. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z
She ran down the path, and there she saw the whole group standing and screaming at the edge of the pond, and the nursemaid completely at her wits’ end with fright. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z
They have come to be called "blind alley" occupations, and refer to such work as that of errand boys, elevator and telephone operators, small clerks, domestic servants, nursemaids, messengers, delivery boys, and teamsters. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z
He had also become acquainted with Maggie, through meeting her out with the children to whom she was nursemaid, and often fell in with her on the Sundays she spent in the town. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z
The nursemaids formed not the least attractive feature of the kaleidoscopic picture. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z
He bore them both off to the house, feeling much like a nursemaid with two recalcitrant children. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z
The eldest of the children, first seen on the rags, a girl, has obtained a place as nursemaid in a tradesman's family, and the rest bid fair to do well. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z
When you could toddle I was little better than a nursemaid, for there wasn’t a dangerous spot you wouldn’t immediately make for. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z
The writer Shedrin's opinion of War and Peace was strange; he said with contempt that it reminded him of the chatter of nursemaids and old ladies. Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy 2011-11-17T03:00:32.207Z
We placed the nursemaid on guard, and went back to the drawing-room, and for the rest of the evening made less noise, while she made none, but slumbered peacefully. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z
Once again he was an It,—a Thing,—a submerged entity, deprived of his child and acting as a nursemaid to dogs. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z
“You can’t treat a girl like that as if she were a nursemaid,” he objected. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z
The priests took in their belts, appointed eight of the strongest as nursemaids, and wondered where it would all end. The Image and the Likeness 2011-08-23T02:00:33.617Z
He has probably forgotten everything in the society of some nursemaid. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z
One of our nursemaids was a perfect Hebe.  Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z
From the adjoining room came the low sound of the plaintive air with which the nursemaid was soothing little Gretchen to sleep. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z
The horror-struck nursemaid is almost blown off her feet; and Charley’s brother, also terror-stricken, will be down on his back in a moment; whilst his little 53 sister maintains her equilibrium with great difficulty. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z
As one Catholic to another, she had warned the nursemaid to protect her soul from evil influence. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z
There were no headlines announcing: "Son of a millionaire weds a nursemaid." A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z
A few soldiers might be seen talking to giggling nursemaids, but the one face he hungered to see did not reveal itself. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z
I’m going to have a lot of fun myself if I’ve got to play nursemaid for this kid.” The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z
An attempt was made—later, I think, than the Exhibition year—to extend Rotten Row into Kensington Gardens, and thus deprive pedestrians—notably children and nursemaids—of their promenades amongst the trees. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z
Dolly Vanborough and her brother had had many a game there, and knew every corner and haunt of this sylvan world of children and ducks and nursemaids. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z
A young New York millionaire, at odds with his family, finds his solution in working for and loving the optimistic nursemaid who brought him from the depths of trouble and made for him a hearthstone. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z
Think what these tints will be, transposed, distorted, By English laundress, flower-girl, and sported By cook or nursemaid! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 5th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.440Z
She was obliged to permanently employ a little nursemaid, and also, to her bitter sorrow, to wean her baby. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z
For some months 220 the equestrian habitu�s of Rotten Row careered in the Gardens, to the terror and danger of children, and the disturbance of many groups of soldiers and nursemaids. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z
When the mother and the nursemaid got to the spot, the baby was ablaze from her white apron to her yellow hair. Loveliness A Story 2011-04-27T02:00:23.450Z
Two imported nursemaids in bat-wing cloaks have been glowering at us for some time as it is. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z
There comes your gracious lady, just now, out of the house, and the nursemaid follows, with the baby-carriage, in which lies the little sleeping beauty. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z
The fact was, that she had given the little nursemaid an hour or two off. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z
Nay, his very nursemaid's usual threat was, that if he cried when his face was being washed, he should never be Sir Geoffery. Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-04-06T02:00:04.340Z
The poster shows representations of the different disguises under which spies are probably concealing themselves—as nursemaids, schoolboys, tramps, and so on—and warns the public to avoid them. War Posters Issued by Belligerent and Neutral Nations 1914-1919 2011-04-04T02:00:11.403Z
Then she heard wheels—wheels and voices on the gravel of the drive; and, slipping from her bed, without arousing the fast-sleeping nursemaid or Tony, she ran downstairs in her white nightie. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z
Here and there on the benches a soldier and a nursemaid are sitting together. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z
She was noble—adel, as they call it—at the least; while I was merely a nursemaid. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z
She and her family were slaves of Abram and Kitty Williams, of that section, and Lou served as nursemaid to her master's children from the age of eight until after the Civil War. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z
She also was a nursemaid for her mistress' little children and at one time was hired out to the methodist preacher's family to take care of the children when his wife was ill. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z
Her eyes were fixed upon a nursemaid, with two or three young children, passing by. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z
Mary Campbell, ‘Highland Mary,’ he had met when she was a nursemaid in the home of his friend Gavin Hamilton. The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z
Even if it relieved my pent-up bitterness, it would have left me nothing but a nursemaid; and, since I was to marry him, why disturb the peace? The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z
When I five years old my old missy she say, 'Dat gal, she sho' am gwine be dependable and I makes nursemaid out of her.' Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z
Mrs Stanson, writing letters to engage a variety of nursemaids—she considered a person of her position must be thoroughly waited on—was surprised by a visit from Esm�. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z
She went up on to the Heath one afternoon and flung herself into a pond, in the presence of several philosophical male loafers, one emotional nursemaid, and two fat-headed children. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z
He did not spoil her; at least he did not follow her about like a nursemaid, but he loved her fondly, and refused her nothing. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z
And he plunged into a subject far removed from nursemaids and their charges. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z
“What do you have to do now, Betty, act as nursemaid to the countess’ daughter?” Betty Lee, Sophomore 2010-12-24T03:00:29.270Z
A few hours' duty a day, and the rest—beer and nursemaids! "Pip" A Romance of Youth
The emotional nursemaid sat down at once on the grass, removed her hat, unhooked her dress at the neck, fanned herself with a handkerchief, and said, "Oh! that has give me a turn!" Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z
Edward frowned as he noticed that his companion chose these outer pathways in preference to the broad walks, where nursemaids and their little charges swarmed and idle promenaders walked slowly up and down. The Princess Galva A Romance
Still pursuant of his plan to give the forlorn little nursemaid "one good time in her life," Burke Denby contrived to be with her not a little in between drives and picnics. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z
Nothing could be less surreptitious than those chatting nursemaids, and actually in one of the parallelograms of garden a child was throwing a scarlet ball high into the air. Sinister Street, vol. 2
The carriage was now bowling comfortably along a wide tree-shaded avenue bordered on either side by stretches of greenery which were dappled with children and nursemaids and sedate little girls with bobbing pigtails. Sinister Street, vol. 1
The only witness of the scene, save the three concerned, was the nursemaid, who had brought in the child on its father’s arrival. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893
His father was a poor solicitor’s clerk, who also had a small business as a law stationer, and his mother had been a nursemaid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis"
The nursemaid had carelessly set it on fire. Life on the Stage
It was impossible to imagine a nursemaid lolling over a perambulator in Clapperton Street. Sinister Street, vol. 2
Then with the utmost gravity he asked me if Patsy, my nursemaid, "was claimed". A Man in the Open
His sister was walking in the meadows at the foot of the garden, with a nursemaid who carried 143 the baby, and she looked up pensively when he approached. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893
She was wedged rather tightly between two nursemaids, and the basket of a grocer's boy behind was pressing into her back; but these were minor discomforts, which must be endured. A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days
The children had all been put in their bath, and packed off early to bed, and Susan, the nursemaid, had run downstairs for a few minutes' gossip in the kitchen. Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves
In it were Mr. and Mrs. Railton-Rogers, seven little Rogerses, a nursemaid, and what is known in suburbia as a cook-general. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle
What more easy than for the heavy whistle to drop out of the lightly made open wicker work, as the nursemaid was carrying the withered flowers and leaves to throw away? Five Minutes' Stories
Down came the front cloth of the harlequinade with shops and mischievous boys and everlastingly mocked policemen and absent-minded nursemaids and swaggering soldiers. Carnival
By this time they had reached the gate, just as a nursemaid unlocked it to pass through with her charge. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One
One always loves the tots in the Park—little white bundles with curly heads; but to-day I envied the nursemaids. A Question of Marriage
He, together with his six brothers and sisters and the nursemaid, were now ranged behind their father, looking with large-eyed wonder at the sergeant. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle
The ducks whirred up from the pool, the people shrieked, as we scattered perambulators, nursemaids, and children, flying like leaves upon the wind. Sir Hilton's Sin
From off this bridge leaped an industrious apprentice to save the life of his master’s infant daughter, dropped into the river by a careless nursemaid; the father was Lord Mayor of London.  About London
I certainly think it's a shame for the girl to be kept at home acting nursemaid to the younger ones. The Head Girl at the Gables
Remember, you should not come to pay visits without your nursemaid.' The Golden Age
What a time Mr. and Mrs. Distracted Horseman must have of it, though—especially now they've sacked the nursemaid. The Wouldbegoods
Why, even the nursemaids over there, and Hetty Giles, the landlady's daughter, are wiser than I. I came to see it every instant, the difference between you and me—between our two worlds. The Mountain Girl
These children seem to have been abandoned by the nursemaids and lost or forgotten by their parents. The Star Lord
It had not occurred to her to compare herself with a nursemaid, for she loved the children and enjoyed taking them for walks, but now Marion had done so. Loyal to the School
It was early in the day—too early for the nursemaids and the children, and the ordinary walkers, and there was no one but Minola now in Heron's sight. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6.
My job, which I didn't particularly want, was to nursemaid you. Evil Out of Onzar
There were the nursemaids—the babies—the beggars—the ragged urchins and the venders of the street, with their raucous cries rending the air. The Mountain Girl
In the swiftly moving elevator cage Alan ascended the slender pylon to the boarding platform, crowded by a group of quarreling children in charge of an indifferent nursemaid. The Star Lord
At least once a day he kidded Rick about becoming nursemaid to a monkey. The Scarlet Lake Mystery
It was a picture to see her sail to church on a Sunday, a parasol in hand, a nursemaid following, and the baby buried in a trade hat and armed with a patent feeding-bottle. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)
Dordess said very offhand: "How do you like your job of nursemaid?" The Deaves Affair
He'd returned to the Age of Chivalry to steal the Sangraal, not to play nursemaid to damosels in distress. A Knyght Ther Was
A housemaid on the staircase and the second nursemaid on the nursery landing above shared Sir Isaac's eagerness to hear her answer. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
Yet I am certain that the boy who walked in Richmond Park with my father in the 'sixties spoke in his dialect, and not in that of Cockney nursemaids. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography
She had women on board, and children, the captain’s wife, a nursemaid, a baby, and the two young sons of a Captain Steven on their way to the mainland for schooling. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)
He has had a little English nursemaid to attend on him, and he has become a familiar object in many English families of the neighbourhood. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CL, April 26, 1916
There were a few other children there, with their nursemaids, but she felt there was some untold difference between her and them. Little Meg's Children
One sultry evening in August he was walking in the country, and noticed a perambulator with a white figure, which he took to be that of a remarkably tall nursemaid, bending over it. Byways of Ghost-Land
I walked along the sea-wall scrutinizing the various bright groups of children and nursemaids and holiday people that were scattered over the sands. The Passionate Friends
He's a cocky old guy, as you know, isn't afraid of any single thing on earth and it galls him to have me go along to play nursemaid. Death Points a Finger
Ptolemy was promoter for the trip and suggested the advisability of his accompanying us as courier and future nursemaid to Diogenes. Our Next-Door Neighbors
Major Morton had vigorously opposed the nursemaid scheme. Jan and Her Job
The angry voice of a nursemaid no longer arouses only a formless feeling of dread, but also a specific idea of the slap that may follow. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I
The Park that had taken Cassy and from which, at that hour, children and nursemaids had gone, was green, fragrant, quiet. The Paliser case
In one of them the mother, when dying in Egypt, appears to her children at Torquay, and is clearly seen in broad daylight by all five of the children and also by the nursemaid. Clairvoyance
As a nursemaid, Jimmy Brackett flattered himself that he was a success––till the moment came when Rosy-Lilly was to be tucked into her bunk. The Backwoodsmen
There seemed to him something incongruous and wrong for a girl with a smile like that to be anybody's nursemaid. Jan and Her Job
The children, however, were dressed for walking, and the nursemaid charged not to go beyond the shrubbery, and they all sallied out in high good humour. Forgotten Tales of Long Ago
To his disgust rather than not, she was young and pretty, a nursemaid pushing a baby-cart into which a young man of two was strapped. The Dust Flower
She talks to him as if she were his nursemaid, Sophia thought. The Saracen: The Holy War
The cook and the nursemaid, who also acted as waitress and chambermaid, had indulged in one of their controversies during his absence, and the former had departed, vowing she would never return. What's-His-Name
A small but intensely capable nursemaid, prone on the grass in a curvilinear attitude, was acting as tunnel to a young gentleman of three who was impersonating a locomotive. Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman
Five years more of this, and wouldn’t people remember she had been Mrs. Borden’s nursemaid? A Modern Cinderella
But in some cases—and these are more numerous than is commonly supposed—nursemaids do this under the impulse of their own lustful feelings. The Sexual Life of the Child
If music attracts the enemy’s fire, then bands should be left at home to play for nursemaids in parks and on piers. A Padre in France
“What do yez think o’ that?” she muttered, addressing the nursemaid. What's-His-Name
On this the unwary nursemaid flounced into the bed-room to look for him, when Robert, who was hidden beneath a table, darted forth, and promptly locked her in. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others
Such children are not strong enough for nursemaids. A Modern Cinderella
The mother states that in the second year of life, owing to the carelessness of a nursemaid, the child fell out of her cradle, without, however, sustaining any manifest injury. The Sexual Life of the Child
I cannot keep them out thereof, for all I have two nursemaids, and Jack to boot.” Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution
He found the nursemaid up and waiting for him. What's-His-Name
I can only say that the time went by so quickly that they never noticed it going, and were amazed when the Crown nursemaid brought in the royal tea-tray. The Magic World
I really think they would; a friend came to see if they did not want her nursemaid, a nice well trained girl of twenty; an excellent seamstress. A Modern Cinderella
It was a song with which a nursemaid of the Shelton children had been wont to rock the reigning baby to sleep, and had lurked in Dicky’s memory for many a year. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905
There were instances of android nursemaids who were virtually members of the families owning them. The Jupiter Weapon
No wonder she can keep a nursemaid, if that's where she spends her time. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm
If I were to be constituted head nursemaid to Master Victor Stott, there would remain insufficient time for the progress of my own book on certain aspects of the growth of the philosophic method. The Wonder
She was bound-out to some fairly nice people as a little nursemaid. A Modern Cinderella
Nobody claims Broadway to be a domestic scene, and children and nursemaids don’t constitute its charm. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905
The day was cold, but bright, hence quite a number of persons were walking there, together with the usual crowd of nursemaids with the children of the well-to-do from the Hyde Park and Kensington districts. The Stretton Street Affair
Yet the children of both rich and poor are in these early stages either left to haphazard or entrusted to ignorant nursemaids. More Science From an Easy Chair
A few early nursemaids and their charges asleep in baby carriages, were abroad. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City
Mrs. Borden took a new nursemaid, a grown up woman and was willing to let me go, and these other things happened. A Modern Cinderella
In the searching light of day, when its adjacent cab-stands and commonesses are visible, and its gravelled walks are peopled with nursemaids and small children, the Pavilion garden can hardly be called romantic. Vixen, Volume I.
I never like these high-tides; children and nursemaids are so apt to forget all about them.” Girls of the Forest
I think old Considine," he wrote, "must be thinking of turning me into a nursemaid. The Tragic Bride
And Helen was timid about making friends with the nursemaids. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City
“The system seems to have worked well, but I think you need a stronger nursemaid.” A Modern Cinderella
The Petit Luxembourg The gardens of the Luxembourg form another of those favourite Paris playgrounds for nursemaids and their charges. Royal Palaces and Parks of France
It is the baby among nuts—a pure American baby—waiting for some nursemaid—for many nursemaids—to tend and develop it as a prince among trees should be developed. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946
I saw three children at one place, two at another, plus two nursemaids; but as a whole the houses look deserted, as they are. At Plattsburg
He does not fancy this idea at all; it is like being a nursemaid, and he thinks how silly he will look with two wee children. The Children's Book of London
"This here Glass sure needs a guardian or a nursemaid or something," he told Casey afterward. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters
Selina told her sister afterwards that she had overheard him—that he talked of them as if he had been a nursemaid; upon which Laura defended the young man even to extravagance. A London Life and Other Tales
The lady isn't much to look at, and she wasn't dressed up the least bit, and the baby that the nursemaid was holding was awful homely. Princess Polly At Play
There was no one near them, no one indeed in sight, except a nursemaid who wheeled a perambulator along one of the paths, but she sunk her voice to something near a whisper. In the Mayor's Parlour
"At fourteen and sixteen we surely don't need a nursemaid," sniffed Marjorie. A Patriotic Schoolgirl
To dress it up in the fashion, and let it be dragged at the heels of an indifferent nursemaid along a pavement, is tantamount to confining a puppy by a heavy chain to a kennel. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
I come down here to rest, not to play nursemaid. The Cricket
That is, if somebody didn't crack up, or get lymph node swellings that wouldn't reduce, and if you didn't have to try to play nursemaid. The Planet Strappers
I had a new nursemaid, whom I left in charge, of course. Cricket at the Seashore
When he had been taken tenderly for an "airing" by the trimmest of nursemaids, and in the daintiest of perambulators. An Australian Lassie
If only one could get rid of the sparrows—the cynical little beasts! hear how they're chortling—and the people, and the nursemaids and children. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
When Trafalgar Square is with human geese full, And fiercely fights the daft declamator, Undisturbed the nursemaid can push the peaceful Perambulator. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893
Frank was glad that Lester had a place to go—and furious that he would probably have to nursemaid him, after all. The Planet Strappers
And she remembered how a nursemaid had read some magazine aloud to her long, long ago by the nursery fire in which the very day and hour of the end of the world were given. The Privet Hedge
Lady Hunter had not heard of it; and the relation therefore followed of: the burning down of a house and shop in Blickley, when a nursemaid and baby were lost in the flames. Deerbrook
"It is rude to point," says the nursemaid to her little charge. A History of Nursery Rhymes
“To play nursemaid to a dirty little street brat!” Jewel Weed
A chap has no right comin’ down and settin’ up a business like that in a place like this full of nursemaids and children. The Man Who Lost Himself
They are not very extensive, and seem mostly monopolized by gaily attired nursemaids, with great spreading silver head-dresses, which give them somewhat of a conceited air. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
Mrs Russell Taylor’s nursemaid was crossing the court, with the baby in her arms, when she tripped over the string of Master Hampden Taylor’s kite. Deerbrook
One of them, by the way, gives information that "our nursemaid has the chicken-pock, and we expect to see her throw out feathers to-morrow." The History of "Punch"
It does seem as if you needed four nursemaids and a valet at your heels to pick up after you. Walter and the Wireless
As the two chubby arms closed about Hal's neck into the center of the crowd catapulted a frenzied nursemaid who madly rushed up to young Harling. Carl and the Cotton Gin
And so Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist acting as Snookums’ nursemaid, agree to set up Operation Brainchild, a plan to transport the robot to a far distant planet. Unwise Child
She feared the nursemaid would come before all the sparks were out; and she tried to quiet the baby by dancing it before the mirror over the mantelpiece. Deerbrook
A pretty nursemaid followed with a fat, smiling infant. Elsie Marley, Honey
How would you like to be nursemaid to six or eight brainless little pups no bigger than rats? Walter and the Wireless
The Philippine woman makes an excellent general servant in native families; in the same capacity, in European service, she is, as a rule, almost useless, but she is a good nursemaid. The Philippine Islands
I will not waste another eight or ten years of my life playing nursemaid to a hunk of pseudo-human machinery. Unwise Child
“Yes, indeed, my dear,” observed Miss Nares, “it would have ruined all your prospects in life if he had done by you as he did by the Russell Taylors’ nursemaid. Deerbrook
"I think she was a nursemaid!" interrupted Sir Toady, dispassionately. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
Had it been permitted, the beach would have been crowded as usual with invalids, nursemaids, and perambulators. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
A man resembles one of those gigantic bundles that one sees in nursemaids’ arms. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
From that time York acquired confidence, and lost his timidity; he first walked out with the nursemaids and children, and then accompanied his master. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
He urged on Mrs. Gaunt that she had too many Protestants in her household: her cook and her nursemaid ought, at all events, to be Catholics. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
We know that not infrequently stupid or vicious nursemaids, wet-nurses, and even governesses ignorantly or deliberately induce the habit in children under their charge. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
This is the quarter most patronized by nursemaids and their charges. The Kensington District The Fascination of London
One of the girls was unhappy, as she was in love with a young fisherman, and they were too poor to marry, so she expected to go to Rotterdam as a nursemaid. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
From that day he gave up walking with the nursemaids, and became a matchless field dog. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
The nursemaid was the first to go, and her place was filled by a Roman Catholic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
As, however, I have seen nursemaids in England equally foolish, I will not blame the ignorant Russian peasant. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar
“Oh, I surely can get a place as a nursemaid,” said Emily, a fair delicate girl, looking but ill-adapted for the situation she proposed for herself. The African Trader The Adventures of Harry Bayford
The mother and nursemaids nag the child all day. Civics and Health
“This reminds me that I brought a letter last night for the new nursemaid; at least, I suppose so;” and he took a letter from his pocket, and laid it on the table. Christie Redfern's Troubles
A nursemaid wheeled a perambulator on the opposite pavement, while a little white-robed figure trotted at her side, tossing a ball in the air. A Houseful of Girls
You have enough strain on you without turning nursemaid into the bargain.” Big Game A Story for Girls
She put me in charge of the conductor with so many instructions, that I know he felt like a newly engaged nursemaid. Just Patty
A nursemaid was wheeling a child across the road at that moment, and quick as thought the fair boy sprang at the horse and brought him to a standstill just in time. Boycotted And Other Stories
Everybody admires Miss Gertrude; and I am but a nursemaid, and hardly that.” Christie Redfern's Troubles
A nursemaid draws out her perambulator from under the trees and hastens with it and its wailing occupant nursery-wards. A Dog with a Bad Name
My mother kept a cook and a nursemaid, and a dvornik, or outdoor man, to take care of the horses, the cow, and the woodpile. The Promised Land
"Clam it, ape, or I'll climb up you like a squirrel!" he hissed, and the grinning Breckenridge nodded assent to this demand for silence concerning children and nursemaids. Spacehounds of IPC
With his shoulders well back, filling his lungs deep with the perfumed morning air, he swung along with a hearty, self-confident stride that caused many a little nursemaid to turn and look at him again. The Triflers
I say there have been women—a woman I'll say, even—a nursemaid, whom I have seen in this park—a perfect Juno. Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
On this the unwary nursemaid flounced into the bedroom to look for him, when Robert, who was hidden beneath a table, darted forth, and promptly locked her in. The Peace Egg and Other tales
It was the normal thing in Polotzk, where the mothers worked as well as the fathers, for the children to be left in the hands of grandmothers and nursemaids. The Promised Land
I don't intend to spend the rest of my life toddling children to the park and playing second assistant nursemaid. Gigolo
Ellen confessed that she had seen him running after the Lincoln children, and supposing him with them, had given herself up to the study of a penny dreadful in company with another young nursemaid That Stick
I have made suave and courtly love to a thousand nursemaids in Hyde Park. Europe After 8:15
And I assure you it wrenched the imagination to see tidy nursemaids wheeling perambulators and children playing diavolo on the very square where Bloody Sunday had gone into history. A Preface to Politics
It will be a bad day for England when education is so prevalent that nursemaids have it too. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions
Only children and nursemaids believe in them nowadays. Scottish Ghost Stories
The nursemaid had been wringing out the doll's clothes for the little lady, but now they moved on together. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son
"Any way, her work is more than a nursemaid's work." Ethel Morton's Holidays
The nursemaid, a young girl of seventeen, was not up to her duties—the children ruled her, instead of her ruling the children. A Girl in Ten Thousand
We knew why the nursemaids were cool, and why family horses developed hysteria with such startling suddenness. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army
A nursemaid was conducting a little girl where she would probably be struck by the other end of the easel. The Third Violet
Ignorant nursemaids are unwillingly tolerated, and as the number of competent assistants for mothers is very small, the cost is correspondingly high. Applied Eugenics
But even if she were just a nursemaid I should love her. Ethel Morton's Holidays
Crudely and briefly stated, it is the same fundamental principle that begins with the child and nursemaid, and runs up through the highest forms of church and religious appeal. Heart and Soul by Maveric Post
"The wife of this brute of a man told us that she was nursemaid with the Ferguson Family Concert Company, but they dropped her here in Lake City without a friend or a cent." The Making of Mary
She was bringing the little boy, the little girl, the nursemaid, and another young woman, who was at once to be known as the mother of the two children. The Third Violet
"I'm getting to be quite a weird combination of Red Cross nurse, nursery-governess, and nursemaid," I said. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley
On this the unwary nursemaid flounced into the bed-room to look for him, when Robert, who was hidden beneath a table, darted forth and promptly locked her in. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World
There remains, then, the only true utility of a zoo: it is a childish and pointless show for the unintelligent, in brief, for children, nursemaids, visiting yokels and the generality of the defective. Damn! A Book of Calumny
There were very few nursemaids with their charges in the place when she reached it about an hour later. Robin
Presently the stage began to climb the hills, and the two children were obliged to take grip upon the cushions for fear of being precipitated upon the nursemaid. The Third Violet
I left a roomful of baby Belgians, for whom I was playing nursemaid, to run to the 'phone, and was stabbed with disappointment to hear Diana's voice. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley
That part of the Seine is usually deserted except for nursemaids and children and an occasional workman. Swirling Waters
Yes, even the nursemaids, I notice, wave their handkerchiefs when I ride by them in the park. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
The military element filling the streets engendered a spirit of caution with regard to nursemaids in the minds of their employers. Robin
So I was obliged to do nursemaid whilst she danced and amused herself—and all at my expense. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma
Had I ever thought that I was coming away from them all, with nobody at all but Jane, the new nursemaid, to take care of me? My Young Days
The methods of head nurses, teething, the knavish tricks of nursemaids, patent foods, bottles, bibs—everything. Red Hair
Now and again, quite out of keeping with her surroundings, a rosy-cheeked British nursemaid passed by escorting her charges—the blue-eyed, flaxen-haired children of the dominant race. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
She herself was not in the least likely to be seized with a desire to sit under trees in an atmosphere heavy with nursemaids and children. Robin
"Thank goodness, we're home!" said Jane, staggering through the iron gate to where Martha, the nursemaid, stood at the front door shading her eyes with her hand and looking out anxiously. Five Children and It
In those days mothers were not content to commit the formation of their children's minds to nursemaids and governesses. The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps'
And the nursemaids had always listened so willingly! A Great Emergency and Other Tales
Children and nursemaids do not count as intruders on privacy. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891
It was for exposing himself to nursemaids in the gardens of the Temple. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2
Every afternoon if the weather is favorable, tastefully dressed children appear in charge of nursemaids in white caps and aprons, and together they make picturesque groups in the shade of elm and lime trees. The Harris-Ingram Experiment
There was at that time an elderly woman and a young girl living there, the former being Mrs. Reed, the wet-nurse, and the latter Mary Provis, who acted as nursemaid. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton
The nursemaids quite believed it, and I believed it myself, till the first week I went to school. A Great Emergency and Other Tales
"How sweet of you to come all that way," was all she said, and it was a sufficient reward for the hours in the train and the six hundred minutes among the nursemaids and perambulators. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
I taught him so much, Frank, that he was made a corporal and forthwith a nursemaid fell in love with his stripes. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2
Sophia answered: "There is no virtue in what I do, for, had I the choice, I certainly should not be their nursemaid." What Necessity Knows
"Pretty Bessy," our nursemaid, can do anything with flowers, from a cowslip ball to a growing forget-me-not garland. Miscellanea
Dandy, the Scotch terrier, would renounce a romping ramble with us to keep watch over Baby Cecil when he was really a baby, and was only carried for a dull airing in the nursemaid's arms. A Great Emergency and Other Tales
Was not that nursemaid studying her too narrowly? A Man's Woman
All I can say here is to beseech every mother to be absolutely careful about the antecedents of her nursemaids, and only to admit those of unblemished character into the precincts of the nursery. The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis
When my mother was a girl of sixteen she went into service as a nursemaid in a clergyman's family. The Ship of Stars
But to continue—I engaged myself as nursemaid with an English family, who had been traveling on the continent, and were about returning home. The Fatal Glove
We were very proud of it, and always boasted about our father to the new nursemaids, or any other suitable hearer. A Great Emergency and Other Tales
As for Mr. Curtis, I no more thought of protectin' him than I would think of protectin' a baby in a perambulator from its nursemaid! The Vehement Flame
This ignorance is painfully shown by the frequent application for nursemaids from our penitentiaries. The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis
Two nursemaids appear in the field of danger. Humanly Speaking
When I went into housekeeping, we only had one girl of fifteen to do everything; and we hadn’t a nursemaid regular till Theodore was born; and there were three before him.” The Claverings
A disease which was cured by T. Roosevelt, Esquire, when he invented an idea for the purpose of giving nursemaids steady employment. The Silly Syclopedia
Tom Coutts the banker, founder of the great house in the Strand, married his brother's nursemaid, and loved her faithfully for fifty years. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary
She found a place for her as nursemaid to a little girl out in the country, and Molly was at last established and content. Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena
The nursemaids and the butcher's boy must assuredly have perished unless they happened to have their wits about them. Humanly Speaking
This girl is an example of the varied experiences which have trained American women into becoming the nursemaids of the French peasantry. Out To Win The Story of America in France
Where, while the banjos discord make, the German bands make noise, And nursemaids by the hundred shepherd flocks of girls and boys. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892
She took him up to London, and a nursemaid—not me, you may be quite sure—took him out. The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls
At one time, as Washington entered a shop in New York, a Scotch nursemaid followed him, carrying her infant charge. Washington's Birthday
Perhaps of all its symbols the most typical and popular are: a nursemaid, a perambulator enclosing twins, and a gigantic dragoon. Prose Fancies
What you and I suffer from are defects implanted by idle nursemaids and doting mothers. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate
I traveled as nursemaid to a family of Americans. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp
He would have taken a job as nursemaid for Rosy, if it would have given him a chance to go in and out of this old house, I imagine. The Twenty-Fourth of June
The trouble in those days was not the prospect of suddenly losing cook or nursemaid, but that there was no getting rid of either. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875
The Square, which she had been proud to live upon but rarely walked in,—only children and nursemaids and the commoner people actually walked in it,—the Square looked so expansive, so free, so inviting. No. 13 Washington Square
He led them in dark plottings against their governesses and nursemaids, and even against the Law itself as personified by an elderly, somewhat pompous policeman whose beat included their territory. The Dark House
Several nursemaids also happened along to give their charges a peep at the American school, and a crowd of citizens peered in at doors and windows and made audible remarks about the new institution. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
He rushed into the corridor, and met the procession—May, the perambulator, and the nursemaid. Tales of the Five Towns
No one was there except a nursemaid and a small child, and she and they shared the solitude. Evelyn Innes
The gray squirrel climbed the bench and nosed his pockets for possible peanuts, then hopped off hopefully toward a distant nursemaid and two children. The Tracer of Lost Persons
It was a place to which, as a dreamy, fanciful child escaping from nursemaid and governess, Virginia had liked to climb on hot summer afternoons. Hillsboro People
One Mounted Policeman, whose duty it had been to escort the crazed Russian Doukhobortsi on one of their "altogether" pilgrimages, is hailed across the circle, "Here, lend us your knife, you nursemaid to the Douks." The New North
The tableau of May, elegant as ever, but her eyes brighter and her body more leniently 238 curved, of the hooded perambulator, and of the fluffy-white nursemaid behind—it was too much for him. Tales of the Five Towns
The ducks clambered out of the water, keeping their cunning black eyes fixed on the loitering children whom the nursemaid was urging to return home. Evelyn Innes
One of these deaconess-like nursemaids, walking out with a child whose black curls lay in wide sprays on each shoulder, detached herself from the up-town flow and crossed to the trellised threshold. Every Soul Hath Its Song
A statement that he had on one occasion been introduced to the nursemaid, through whom his career has been so tragically cut short, has caused him the deepest irritation. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 29, 1890
Varied indeed is this man's duty,—"nursemaid to the Doukhobor" was a thrust literally true. The New North
The parlourmaid wore her immutable uniform, and the nursemaid wore her immutable uniform. The Roll-Call
He spoke of the tea-house on the island, of the shade of the trees, of the lush grass, of the chatter of the nursemaids and ducks. Evelyn Innes
In one of the cases a mother, when dying in Egypt, appears to her children in Torquay, and is clearly seen in broad daylight by all five children and also by the nursemaid. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
He is said to have stated that he freely forgave the infant whose insulting conduct provoked his outburst, as he did the nursemaid for not restraining her charge's vivacity. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 29, 1890
There were a few small stores opposite, while the park itself was well kept, and populated almost entirely by nursemaids, judging from the number of baby carriages trailing along the walks. The Case and the Girl
The nursemaid, Essie, described Edy tersely as "a piece," while Teddy, who was adored by every one because he was fat and fair and angelic-looking, she called "the feather of England." The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections
The said Maria, who was their little nursemaid, now came in to fetch away the children. Fated to Be Free
If people had said that epics were only fit for children and nursemaids, 'Paradise Lost' might have been an average pantomime: it might have been called 'Harlequin Satan, or How Adam 'Ad 'em.' The Defendant
Of these ninety-two were domestics, one was a lady's maid, and nine were nursemaids. What eight million women want
Restless boys scramble to and fro, quiet nursemaids loiter, and a vagrant has sat down to rest though the bank is dripping with autumn rain. A Mere Accident
Now and then men went by—without any distinctive air of events—now and then a little group of children, a nursemaid and a woman going shopping, and so forth. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
I am housekeeper, nursemaid, and governess all in one! The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
It is owing to her that I have never been obliged to have a nursemaid under my feet or tagging after the boys, to the ruin of their independence. People of the Whirlpool
The seven occupations listed are housekeeper, nursemaid, laundress, saleswoman, teacher, dressmaker and servant. The Trade Union Woman
It was the nursemaid's afternoon out, and Jarley had undertaken to care for Master Jarley in the absence of his true guardians. The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life
Besides doing house work, she was nursemaid and as she grew older did her mistress' sewing and could also weave and knit. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1
Miss Shepperson practically became nursemaid, with the privilege of keeping her own bedroom in order and of helping in a good many little ways throughout the domestic day. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
Then turning to one of his attendants, "I know the children by the nursemaids." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829
Dimly the nursemaid is aware of the protest; most people are dimly aware of it; and the few who seriously labour for an unending reign of peace must take it into account. Essays in Rebellion
I have heard a three-year-old child characterised as "trying" because he wanted to go into the woods, whereas the nursemaid wished to drag him into the city. The Education of the Child
Cook, housemaid, and nursemaid; each female servant required to join the Little Bethel Congregation three times every Sunday—with a serious footman. Nicholas Nickleby
The parks were full of children and nursemaids and joyful dogs that leaped and yelped and scratched up the brown earth with their paws. Alexander's Bridge
In domestic life a great deal of service is done by children, the girls acting as nursemaids and general servants, and the lads as errand boys. Treatise on Parents and Children
To Stella, in the midst of his political warfare, he could write with the playfulness that nursemaids use for children, and most men keep for their kittens or puppies. Essays in Rebellion
There were the same ladies and gentlemen, the same children, the same nursemaids, the same telescopes, the same portable chairs.  Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
With the help of a skilled nursemaid, with good food and work and play, he had recovered. The Tarn of Eternity
Oh my joy, my pride, My delight to hide, Let us sing, aside, Ladies What in truth we feel, Let us whisper low Knightsbridge nursemaids, etc. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
What a time Mr and Mrs Distracted Horseman must have of it, though—especially now they've sacked the nursemaid. The Wouldbegoods
I felt that I had indeed missed an opportunity: to witness such an event as a nursemaid going 'in two halves' does not occur twice in a life-time! Sylvie and Bruno
An elderly nursemaid and two children were standing in a corner of the enclosure, looking at a lean goat tethered to the grass. The Woman in White
At one time she served as your nursemaid. The Tarn of Eternity
Oh! my hours are gold, And the joys untold, When my eyes behold Ladies My beloved Princess; And the years will seem Knightsbridge nursemaids, etc. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
I hated to see plump citizens with wild eyes, and nursemaids with scared children, and miserable women scuttling like rabbits in a warren. Mr. Standfast
And he was followed, in his turn, by a frightened little nursemaid, carrying a fat baby, also screaming. Sylvie and Bruno
On the way I got a piece of solid comfort from the sight of a greyhound that was swinging along at a nursemaid's heels. The Thirty-Nine Steps
A nursemaid, long ago, and a weak and sickly child. The Tarn of Eternity
"She might have been nothing but the nicest possible warm-hearted nursemaid or a cottage woman who loved the child." The Shuttle
At the age of fifteen or sixteen she began to earn her own living as a nursemaid, an occupation which may appear to have given her a distaste for infantile society. She Stands Accused
Did you notice the nursemaid's look of terror? Sylvie and Bruno
After a suitable time I was put under the care of a nursemaid. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography
Twice a day, he had to traverse a park frequented by perambulating nursemaids, and he became romantically involved with one of them. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
By a natural perversity of disposition, which my nursemaids called contrariness, I felt the more strongly for my creed when I saw it despised among men.  Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
In the park were the inevitable array of nursemaids, skylarking couples, and ragged little boys. The Octopus : A story of California
I told you about the Knowltop people on the east of us, who took in forty-seven youngsters the night of the fire, and how their entire house party turned themselves into emergency nursemaids? Dear Enemy
While my nursemaid was occupied in inquiring after my sister, I was attracted by the bright red poppies in a neighbouring field. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography
We had then a young woman—a nursemaid who had stayed on and who was a good girl and clever; and SHE took the children altogether for the interval. The Turn of the Screw
In and out they pop and play, Have it all their own wild way, Fly and frolic, scamper, glow; Treat the moon, for all her show, State, and opal diadem, Like a nursemaid watching them. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2
Then nursemaids with perambulators pass, followed by a lady in expensive garments, who talks volubly to her two pretty daughters. Yorkshire
Children's voices floated to us from the waterside as though from very far away, the nursemaids and perambulators seemed tinged with unreality, the London towers were clouds, its roar the roar of waves. The Centaur
On that day she had sent the nursemaid out with Fritz—not so much as once did she yearn for her boy. Bertha Garlan
There, you may twist your person into any shape you please, without the fear of discomposing a silken dress, or a nursemaid's petticoats. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827
It was locked against the public, nursemaids from surrounding homes and a few old ladies stiff with gentility holding keys. Star-Dust
By way of linking the child with the soil and its people, Marcella had taken care to give him nursemaids from the village. Sir George Tressady — Volume I
The children, too, find companionship, to the great relief of parents and nursemaids. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
The nursemaid was on her knees beside them, helping them to build a castle with the sand. Bertha Garlan
A woman dressed in white sat under one of the hawthorns, with a baby on her lap; and a nursemaid, in gayer raiment, stood by, looking down at the child. The Lovels of Arden
And the Record prints snapshots at Joy and her nursemaid. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day
The babies, nursemaids, and pet dogs are there. The Roof of France
Then there are so-called "squares" in the heart of the town, where military bands play twice a week, and nursemaids and their charges spend the afternoons. Holidays in Eastern France
Once again she saw children playing, governesses and nursemaids gossiping, reading, knitting. Bertha Garlan
But there was no one—the cheval-glass and the great glass door of the wardrobe reflected only his own figure, and the scared nursemaid peering from behind his elbow. The Lovels of Arden
Miss Shotover, flushed with exertion, and annoyed with her part of nursemaid, held her tight and hauled her along by the hand. A Rough Shaking
Just then we passed a hooded carriage, in which were seated father, mother, two little ones, and nursemaid, all taking a holiday jaunt, the day being Sunday. The Roof of France
The shadows upon the grass, the nursemaids and the babies, the boys and girls playing tennis, or just strolling around happy to be alive—she could make Karl see them all. The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love
Children were playing on the gravel; governesses and nursemaids were sitting on the seats; little girls were running about along the steps of the Temple of Theseus and under its colonnade. Bertha Garlan
The nursemaid frittered away a few more minutes in tapping gingerly at the dressing-room door, until at last, emboldened by the silence, she opened it, and, peering in, beheld nothing but emptiness. The Lovels of Arden
Gaily clad children, pursued by anxious mothers and nursemaids, ran and shouted, the sunshine and fresh air having gone to their heads. The Far Horizon
The day began to decline, the sun sank, it commenced to rustle lightly in the trees around, and the nursemaids who sat in groups near the parallel bars made ready to wheel their perambulators home. Hunger
"Where have you been with him so long?" she asked the nursemaid. The Desert and the Sown
The drawing represented the usual sea-side watering place—the beach with a nursemaid at full length; children building sand castles, and some small sails in the offing. Modern Painting
On both sides of the straight road there were tall hedges, and the nursemaids lay in the wide shadows on the rich summer grass, their perambulators at a little distance. Esther Waters
He paused stammering awkwardly—"It's an infernal impertinence asking you to—to—" "To turn nursemaid at my time of life," she interrupted. The Shadow of the East
It was very quiet all around me; down near the Queen's arbour two nursemaids were trundling their perambulators; otherwise, there was not a creature anywhere in sight. Hunger
She lingered for a moment to watch the children playing, the nursemaids slowly pushing, the elms opening their crumpled leaves like babies' hands. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing
Look at the nursemaids, and the boys playing, and the carriages on the terrace. The History of David Grieve
In Berzelius Park the seats which were usually occupied by the nursemaids of the rich and their charges, were crowded with the families of the labourers who had appeared in great numbers with their perambulators. Married
Quickly he carries the girl as she's clad in chemise of coarse linen— Just as a nursemaid might, playfully up to her bed. Erotica Romana
She wandered about in a somewhat aimless way, until, in the Ladbroke Grove Road, she found a servants' registry-office, and went in to apply for a place as nursemaid or nursery-governess. Fan : the story of a young girl's life
On another occasion he might have looked at the nursemaids, but this day the prettiest is plain-featured; they are but the ordinary bread of existence; to-day he is going to partake of more extraordinary fare. Memoirs of My Dead Life
It was a delightful spot, and when, accompanied by our nursemaid, my brothers and I set off to spend a long summer morning there, we seemed to have reached the height of bliss. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
After the birth of her fourth child, the work grew too hard for her and a nursemaid had to be engaged. Married
Mrs. C—— had one of these Icelanders as nursemaid, and she did very well, picking up enough English in a few weeks to understand all we wanted. A Trip to Manitoba
At the head of the Serpentine she stood for ten or fifteen minutes to watch the children and nursemaids feeding the swans and ducks. Fan : the story of a young girl's life
I left him in charge of the under nursemaid, and returned to the room my lady was in. A Terrible Secret
Typically, the chief figures of this group are mother, brothers and sisters, and father, to which are often added nursemaid, governess, and other servants. Mankind in the Making
"Wally's been acting as nursemaid for the last half hour," Jim said, as they made their way along the pier. Back to Billabong
"How long have you been a nursemaid?" asked a boy older than himself, one day. Jack's Ward
He often watched the troops of nursemaids and children whom he met during his afternoon strolls. With Zola in England
He was the owner of several slaves, and, amongst the rest, a young woman who was employed as nursemaid in the family. An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States
There is a considerable art in carrying an infant comfortably for itself and for the nursemaid. The Book of Household Management
In those walks the nursemaids and children, and dainty folk, are wandering as usual airing their curls in the fresh breeze; and only now and then a workless operative trails by with chastened look. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine
She must have been a nursemaid only, for the child was white and ruddy while she was brown and had hair blacker than jet. The Social Cancer
"He's perfectly content to let me play nursemaid and housekeeper all day and loving wife in the evening." Tales of the Jazz Age
Presently, the others began murmuring amongst themselves over the anticipated victory, and Habrunt and his young nursemaid were ignored and forgotten. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs
Such are the cares which devolve upon the nursemaid, and it is her duty to fulfil them personally. The Book of Household Management
"I want it for my mamma," and he gave his smart little cane to the nursemaid to hold, while he opened his purse. Five Little Peppers and their Friends
Andrews looked at her for a long time, enraptured by the absurd daintiness of the figure between the big bundles of flesh of the nursemaids. Three Soldiers
A nursemaid,—English, at a glance,—arose from her seat in the window and held a cautious finger to her lips. A Fool and His Money
The nursemaids lay together on the shingle, and their novels slipped down the stones to their feet. Spring Days
In smaller families, where there is only one nursemaid kept, she is assisted by the housemaid, or servant-of-all-work, who will do the rougher part of the work, and carry up the nursery meals. The Book of Household Management
Fly could not pour forth questions and reminiscences fast enough about all the beloved animals at Silverton, not forgetting the little G.F.S. nursemaid, for whom she had actually made an apron in her plain-work lessons. The Two Sides of the Shield
The white caps of the nursemaids bent over and ribbons fluttered about the child's head as they tried to console her. Three Soldiers
They were dissatisfied and on the point of leaving, especially the new nursemaids. Mr. Bingle
Behind Sylvia stalked her cold and haughty husband, and behind him tripped the wonderful nursemaid, with her wonderful blue streamers, and her wonderful bundle of ruffles and lace. Sylvia's Marriage
It may not be out of place if we conclude this brief notice of the duties of a nursemaid, by an extract from Florence Nightingale's admirable "Notes on Nursing." The Book of Household Management
His nursemaid, aged twenty-four, had many years before gone through the smallpox, in the natural way, which was evident from her being much pitted with it. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
The child wailed dismally, and Andrews, quailing under the furious glances of the nursemaids, stood before her, flushed crimson, stammering apologies, not knowing what to do. Three Soldiers
As he was walking up Madison Avenue, his attention was drawn to a little girl in charge of a nursemaid. Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute
Ruby went hither and thither for a day or two, calling upon the mothers of children who wanted nursemaids The Way We Live Now
Determined not to be overtaken by him a second time and treated to advice about nursemaids, we dispensed with sleep altogether for that night, and nearly got drowned at the second river. The Ivory Trail
A nursemaid caught Paul, but Dodo eluded the girl, and ran straight for the road along which Grace was plunging. The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem
In this part of the gardens there were only a few nursemaids and children; it would have been a capital place and time for improving his intimacy with the remarkable woman. The Odd Women
"These nursemaids neglect their charges criminally," said the gentleman, directing his remarks to Hector. Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute
You'd better say as nursemaid, as you seems to take kindly to children.  The Way We Live Now
Occasionally she walked along the asphalte pavement of the Brighton Road—a nursemaids' promenade—as far as the stone which marks twelve miles from Westminster Bridge. The Paying Guest
A small ring of wonderstruck children and nursemaids would gather to watch him and linger even when he and uncle Charles had sat down again and were talking athletics and politics. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
You must have taken me for some nursemaid on whom you had condescended to cast your eye! The Duke's Children
They were almost as good as London police—there were no areas to the houses, neither insinuating cooks or housemaids, nor even nursemaids with babies in perambulators, to distract their attention from their municipal duties. Ismailia
But she was very unhappy, finding that it did not suit her to be nursemaid to her aunt.  The Way We Live Now
Concise, but terrible in its clear brevity, was the story of the agent tampering with her, the nursemaid, until she had given him access to the private rooms, where he had turned over the papers. Clever Woman of the Family
Here, too, were iron benches which were, for the most part, the meeting-place of the nursemaids. The Puppet Crown
A nursemaid enters and beckons Mrs. Roberts to the door with a glance. The Garotters
He lives at the hotel until his cottage is finished, and the first thing I knew he had hired a stout nursemaid as his contribution to the service of humanity. Marm Lisa
That frightened a nursemaid who was wheeling a perambulator, and then it was that I entered into the proceedings. Idle Ideas in 1905
He said “nursemaid” first, but then stumbled in his words, seeming to remember something.  The Lady of the Shroud
His sister was walking in the meadows at the foot of the garden, with a nursemaid who carried the baby, and she looked up pensively when he approached.  A Changed Man; and other tales
Ah, there they were, just coming down the street; and Downe pointed to the figures of two children with a nursemaid, and a lady walking behind them. Wessex Tales
There was a small, cheap, totally inadequate nursemaid. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)
When one thinks how many mothers have NO nursemaids: how many poor dear children have no doctors: ought we not to be thankful for Mary Malowney, and that Dr. Bates's bill is forty-seven pounds? The Fatal Boots
A nursemaid and two children came and sat down beside him. Fraternity
The only witness of the scene save the three concerned was the nursemaid, who had brought in the child on its father’s arrival.  A Changed Man; and other tales
And he uttered a groan which made a nursemaid turn and stare. Five Tales
A young nursemaid cannot reach the heights of training and experience needed. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)
I hired out as a veterinarian, not as a nursemaid for a bunch of psychoneurotic humans and superstitious Lani. The Lani People
She could see nursemaids wheeling babies towards the Gardens, and noted their faces gazing, not at the babies, but, uppishly, at other nursemaids, or, with a sort of cautious longing, at men who passed. Fraternity
Perhaps I shall merely be required to act as nursemaid; and in any case, I hear that the governess there has been changed three times in two years. Poor Folk
So she salved her nursemaid's conscience—with the help of the fifty pounds. A Simpleton
As any woman is supposed to be a competent mother, so any woman is supposed to be a competent nursemaid or housemaid. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)
They began their regular issues, I think, while I was the nursemaid of my little nephews at Beverly. A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)
In the Broad Walk, beneath those dangerous trees, the elms, people sat and took the sun—cheek by jowl, generals and nursemaids, parsons and the unemployed. Fraternity
At this moment Theodosia, the nursemaid, approached the old lady with the General's children. The Gambler
The crying had ceased, but in its place the monotonous Voice of Conscience, for the moment personated by Sarah Walker's nursemaid, kept alive a drowsy recollection of Sarah Walker's transgressions. By Shore and Sedge
A private tutor is a sort of blend of poor relation and nursemaid, and few of the stately homes of England are without one. Something New
A man resembles one of those gigantic bundles that one sees in nursemaids’ arms.  Novel Notes
Dogs went before them, and nursemaids followed after. Fraternity
"I am very well, thank you, Madame," replied the nursemaid. The Gambler
Bolt upright in the recess of a window sat a nursemaid who had succumbed to sleep equally with her helpless charge in the perambulator beside her. By Shore and Sedge
They had a kind and merry nursemaid, and a dog who was called James, and who was their very own. The Railway Children
Had they been nursemaids or servant girls, I should have expected it.  Novel Notes
It's monstrous that an educated mother should have to be nursemaid.' New Grub Street
As I was passing the door of the General's suite, I met the nursemaid, and inquired after her master. The Gambler
The immediate effect of my intrusion was limited solely to the nursemaid. By Shore and Sedge
The thoughts from which she recoiled forced their way back into her mind; the narrative of the nursemaid's discovery became a burden on her memory once more. The Evil Genius
The vagrant was propelling it triumphantly across the lawn, and gazing down at it with the same fond pride with which a nursemaid leans over the perambulator to observe her lusty and gurgling charge. Lion and the Unicorn
In this case there were no narrow circumstances to contend with, for the wife, originally a nursemaid, not long after her marriage inherited house property from a relative. New Grub Street
I felt sure that she had returned to her own room; wherefore, I intended quietly to follow her, and to ask the nursemaid aid who opened the door how her mistress was. The Gambler
A good-looking nursemaid wheeled a perambulator beneath their shade, and though she never looked his way, he took a wicked pleasure in surreptitiously closing first one eye and then the other in her direction. Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large
Wondering what had become of her father and her governess, Kitty had asked the nursemaid to look for them. The Evil Genius
Let me only relate that we were interrupted by the appearance of the nursemaid at the pavilion door. The Black Robe
A few minutes later he was listening to the shrill and repeated assurances of the nursemaid that her previous experience of filthy spectacles had been on a notably smaller scale. The Toys of Peace, and other papers
The only persons who were near to her, in the position she now occupied, were a nursemaid and two little boys. No Name
There were times when I could not but think less of the boy, seeing him rock convulsed over antics of Irene that have been known to every nursemaid since the year One. The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens
The nursemaid was not near enough to hear what followed. The Evil Genius
Thus far I had written, when the nursemaid brought me a little note, addressed in pencil. The Black Robe
Olivia, his two-year-old daughter, was accustomed to spend the hour from high noon till one o’clock with her father while the nursemaid gobbled and digested her dinner and novelette.  The Toys of Peace, and other papers
His children have been reared in England, and the nursemaid is a thorough Englishwoman, who has never been seen to shrug her shoulders. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
That God I heard of first from my nursemaid, and in very truth he is the proper God of all the nursemaids of mankind. The Research Magnificent
Before she could ask who had so cruelly deceived the child, and for what purpose, the nursemaid, standing behind the chair, warned her to be silent by a touch. The Evil Genius
Quite unmindful of the nursemaids across the square, Orde put his arm comfortingly about her shoulder. The Riverman
Phoebus appeared as the Postillion of Lonjumeau and Minerva as a Norman nursemaid. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
"That's the thing!" she cried, and ran off to the fountain, with the nursemaid after her. The Evil Genius
Some gaping nursemaid confronted him suddenly with a tiger in a cage in the menagerie annexe of a circus. The Research Magnificent
The nursemaid had missed the child, and had come into the garden to see if she was with her mother. The Evil Genius
Having brought her work with her, the nursemaid retired to the summer-house and diligently plied her needle, looking at Kitty from time to time through the open door. The Evil Genius
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