Nurserymaid

Word NURSERYMAID
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Only when Cornelia Scipionis returned were the children seen, banished under the escort of a weeping and shivering nurserymaid; the mother knelt again opposite Marius, as helpless as he. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)

"I will," said Servilia hardily, and off she marched, her nurserymaid hurrying after her. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)

That functionary was a good-hearted, tearful, scatter-brained girl, lately taken by Tom's mother, Madam Brown, as she was called, from the village school to be trained as nurserymaid. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)

In the letters of a former nurserymaid — I give her name, Jean Mitchell, honoris causa — we are enabled to feel, even at this distance of time, some of the bitterness of that month of bereavement. ❋ Unknown (1912)

It was easily come by, but he was of opinion that if he had not had it, "if I had been brought up a milksop, with a nurserymaid everlastingly at my heels, I should have been this day as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces called Colleges and Universities." ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

Dickens tells us of a nurserymaid who elaborated it into ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

Consequently the highly intelligent and sensitive adult hands the child over to a nurserymaid who has no nerves and can therefore stand more noise, but who has also no scruples, and may therefore be very bad company for the child. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

This is a blasphemous lie; and the fact that it is on the lips of every nurserymaid does not excuse it in the least. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

When some unusually conscientious or enterprising bacteriologist reads the pamphlets of Jenner, and discovers that they might have been written by an ignorant but curious and observant nurserymaid, and could not possibly have been written by any person with a scientifically trained mind, he does not feel that the whole edifice of science has collapsed and crumbled, and that there is no such thing as smallpox. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

If you are a nurserymaid, attend to your duties; and do not presume to ape your elders. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

In the letters of a former nurserymaid -- I give her name, Jean Mitchell, honoris causa -- we are enabled to feel, even at this distance of time, some of the bitterness of that month of bereavement. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

And there was I, a poor unprotected male, left to face the squalling of two infant female children and a full-grown female nurserymaid! ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)

It is not to be supposed that Gertrude watched all this with no thought beyond the little nurserymaid. ❋ Edward Barnard Lintott (1859)

I was making my bed, having received strict orders from Bessie to get it arranged before she returned, (for Bessie now frequently employed me as a sort of under-nurserymaid, to tidy the room, dust the chairs, etc.). ❋ Unknown (1848)

"No fear," answered Higson, "I will watch over them as carefully as a hen does her chickens, or a nurserymaid the half-dozen small children committed to her care." ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

What a pity, that instead of a princess in distress we meet only a nurserymaid! ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

I won't be a nurserymaid, nor a lady's-maid, far less a lady's companion, or a mantua-maker, or a straw-bonnet maker, or a taker-in of plain work. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

He shared her breakfast as he had shared her supper; and immediately after breakfast, mother and daughter, attended by nurserymaid and footman, sallied forth to provide proper luxuries for Chloe's accommodation. ❋ Mary Russell Mitford (1821)

- A domestic servant, who undertakes the whole duties of a household without assistance; her duties comprising those of cook, housemaid, nurserymaid, and various other offices, acccording to the exigencies of the establishment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I won’t be a nurserymaid, nor a lady’s-maid, far less a lady’s companion, or a mantua-maker, or a straw-bonnet maker, or a taker - in of plain work. ❋ Unknown (2002)

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