Nurselike

On the paths nannies walked in nurselike outfits pushing baby carriages with tall wooden-spoke wheels. ❋ Finney, Jack (1995)

Hattie so nurselike in denim and white; and Rowena always so neat in hers with spirals, which she bought ready made at the store for seven dollars and fifty-two cents -- I cannot say; but when I see these marvels ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)

Him, and engineers God's path through the wilderness of the world, will come behind Him and nurselike lay hold of our feeble arms and teach us to go in the way God would have us to walk. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

During the opening, two women dressed in nurselike white outfits carefully unwound the delicate paper on which the images are printed, making each visible, one by one. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Indian women in nurselike uniforms and hairnets scurried around the dirty joint, and my better judgment began to have reservations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

a curious kind of authority, half fatherly, half nurselike, over the ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)