Billy's partner

Usage examples of nanny.

Nanny saw what had happened she ran up to Billy bleating as if her heart would break for she was very fond of him, and she was afraid they were going to kill him or take him away forever.

A garnet brooch deftly unclipped from the bombasine blouse worn by a nanny earned a gaol term or transportion no different to the neatest unclipping of a diamond pin from the silk bodice of a duchess.

Nanny Baskins resided, and took a long lingering look at the sleeping male form on top of the white eyelet spread.

That has been done to you by human females, you know: your mothers and your nannies, the better to control you.

Time and time again these memoirists stress that it was their nanny who taught them how to love and how to live.

Witches soon picked up ways of controlling people with their voices, but Nanny Ogg listened at you.

Nanny Ogg said was doing very well, and that was witchcraft too, and then in an out-of-the-way group of huddled little cottages, they climbed the cramped wooden stairs to a tiny little bedroom where an old man shot at them with a crossbow.

Nanny opened the door had been bad enough, but for a fraction of a second, she would have sworn that an arrow had gone right through Nanny Ogg and stuck in the door frame.

Nanny Ogg, who was sitting in her chair and puffing gently on her pipe.

Without hesitating, the nanny sprinted across the lawn and up the stone steps, bolted through the front door sending hatboxes rolling across the hall and took the stairs three at a time, arriving breathless and shaking in the room where Damp had crawled shrieking under a dust sheet, still hanging onto her spoon.

Nanny Sisi had been more organized and demanded more discipline of me than he did.

Thursday morning, after breakfast, while Nanny was helping Sylva to dress, I received an unexpected visit which made me see the danger I was still exposed to despite the presence of the nurse, as long as I had not publicly put matters right.

Russia, consisting of nannies, children, daughters, and fat landowners, came for the merrymaking in britzkas, gigs, tarantasses, and such carriages as no one ever saw even in dreams.

She had been raised by a succession of nannies unable to deal with life in the eccentric Wythe household.

She answered their anxious questions as to just when she would be coming back with a cheerfulness which wholly deceived them, begged them to be good children and do as Nanny told them and not to annoy their papa, and kissed them with a secret sorrow that it might be a long time, perhaps never, before she saw them again.