How To Use Nursemaid In A Sentence
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Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
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an Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
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Behind the floral chintz sofa and armchairs was a white-clothed table laden with food, where Peter and Jenny sat with a nursemaid.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Major exporters included Navip in Serbia who nursemaided a joint project with the Japanese in a well-equipped winery near Belgrade.
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I could not simply impose a cook-general or a nursemaid on Grace against her will.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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In actuality she was overly nervous rather than arrogant, however, and Capra nursemaided her through the shooting.
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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
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The care of children was normally the task of parents and the immediate family, but, amongst the wealthy, care was the responsibility of special servants, such as nursemaids or ‘nannies’.
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Anne moved closer to Amelia, feeling like a little girl again as she nearly clutched her nursemaid's skirts.
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It makes not Germany but France seem - in choral music as in Gluckian drama - the nursemaid of Classicism.
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Black and white youngsters played together and were often cared for by the same nursemaid.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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Yes , sir , trapped into frittering his life away playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic? eaters.
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He was afraid of hiring another nursemaid, and mistrusted the household servants.
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An unidentified but obviously affluent family is depicted in a richly appointed interior, while in an adjacent room, through an open door, a nursemaid and two children can be seen.
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Cared for by nursemaids and educated largely at home, they were isolated from their peers - a fact sometimes compounded by their parents' political zeal.
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On each site young women - shopgirls, nursemaids, typists - operated the fire control equipment while men fired the guns.
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There are a couple of them in the castle - Hugh MacDonald, who was incarcerated in the cellars with a platter of salt beef and an empty water jug, and the hapless nursemaid, who had the misfortune to drop the son and heir from an upstairs window.
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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
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Here, she's stuck in Westmount, hovering over a nasty, grumpy old husband, making her less of a life partner and more of a nursemaid.
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When I was a child, my nursemaid sang to me whenever I was worried or afraid.
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Elsewhere at Great Taplows life is not what it might seem and young Lord Harry's nursemaid, the beautiful and clever Grace May, has painful choices to make about her future.
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My mother is speaking with a male scribe, one I recognize as that of one of her real sons, her firstborn, my brother and nursemaid to some of my older sisters.
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When I was a child, my nursemaid sang to me whenever I was worried or afraid.
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Their offspring were raised by an aunt and a succession of nursemaids.
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By a natural perversity of disposition, which my nursemaids called contrariness,
Eothen
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He wanted to look for Adam, not nursemaid some townie, but he understood what Roy was asking.
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After slaving to bring up children and nursemaid a man while simultaneously working to boost the family's income, they are the ones left to live out a lonely and unglamorous old age in penury.
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perambulating nursemaids with their charges
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Moreover, a one income family used to have a sort of safety net in the form of Mom, who could drop housework to become a nursemaid, emergency aid worker, or temporary wage earner.
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The situations were the predictable ones, showing young boys (but sometimes men) seduced by women in a form of authority - governesses, nursemaids, nurses, schoolteachers, stepmothers.
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His family have nursemaided him over the last few days.
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But the Barkindji, whose forebears were once permitted in town only as servants and nursemaids, or who worked as stockmen in the outer regions, now own the public spaces.
Travel: Dickens down under
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By the age of four or five, children become nursemaids.
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We are not goddesses, divas or supermoms any more than we're bitches, shrews, sluts or nursemaids, and the damage of getting it wrong has been accumulative, making the picture of a woman's role seem quite grim and hopeless when it's really far from it.
Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women
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Consequently, the black mother, normally a domestic or nursemaid , was the family provider by default.
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He works on George's dreams of a better life than the one he ekes-out helping the community, building his resentment for being "trapped into frittering away his life away playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic-eaters," for choosing to value community over his own self-interest.
Matt Jordan: Don't Crawl to Potter This Christmas
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Leopold had a sister Dora who was four years older than he was, and the other member of the household was Aleathea Starling who not only was nursemaid to the two young children but also looked after the family home.
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Then she looked the young nursemaid straight in the eye.
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As generations of nursemaids have claimed, ginger ale, America's oldest soda, is an effective stomach soother.
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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.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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My nursemaid Nysa used to say I was comely child, but I never thought so.
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The ancients called these human shadows, shades; modern children and nursemaids call them ghosts and spooks; and each such shade is but an eidolon.
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It cannot be expected to nursemaid the thousands of firms that are operational in today's market and to do any of them justice.
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It is true, Emperor, that there is no description or caste for one who would be a nursemaid to'to" He groped for a tactful description, and Skan supplied him with an untactful one.
The White Gryphon
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All of the nursemaids are on their best behavior and wear stones of my mother's favorite qualities in a male when their fosterlings are almost too old for them.
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Poor Chihirae had her classes to attend, as well as nursemaiding me and that can't have been a pleasant job: bedridden, I couldn't use the toilet, I couldn't wash myself, couldn't feed myself.
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On Friday, the nursemaid of the family of Mr. George Thomas, who resides near St. Woolos, was taking one of the children for an airing in one of those blessed perambulators.
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So when they approached this age enquiries were put about as to where there might be ‘a place’ in one of the big houses for a housemaid, kitchenmaid or nursemaid.
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‘I prefer to be a babysitter than a nursemaid,’ she has also reportedly said.
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Kubrick had been nursemaiding this project along for almost two decades, awaiting the time when technology could produce visual effects at the level demanded by his perfectionism.
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After slaving to bring up children and nursemaid a man while simultaneously working to boost the family's income, they are the ones left to live out a lonely and unglamorous old age in penury.
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Now, the jinrikisha is exactly the vehicle in which one would expect to ride in this land of fairy children – large perambulators that hold one person comfortably; but instead of being trundled from behind by a white-capped nursemaid, one of the Henry II. gentlemen, who wears also straw sandals and an enormous blue mushroom hat on his head, ensconces himself between the little shafts in front and prances noiselessly away with it.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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A young nursemaid came forward with two sleeping babies, one only a few months old, the other almost a year.
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On each site young women - shopgirls, nursemaids, typists - operated the fire control equipment while men fired the guns.
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My grandmother was a nursemaid in high demand with the richest echelons of the London gentry.
