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Nourse is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alan E. Nourse, (1928–1992), American science fiction author and physician
  • Alice Nourse (1882–1967), American novelist
  • Amos Nourse (1794–1877), American medical doctor and Senator
  • Chet Nourse (1887–1958), American baseball relief pitcher
  • Dave Nourse (1878–1948), South African cricketer
  • Dick Nourse, American news anchor
  • Dudley Nourse (1910–1981), South African cricketer and batsman
  • Edith Nourse Rogers (1881–1960), American social welfare volunteer and politician
  • Edward Everett Nourse (1863–1929), American Congregational theologian
  • Edwin Griswold Nourse (1883–1974), American economist
  • Elizabeth Nourse (1859–1938), American portrait and landscape painter
  • John Nourse, bookseller died 1780
  • Joseph Nourse (1754–1841), first United States Register of the Treasury
  • Lauren Nourse (born 1982), Australian netball player
  • Rebecca Nourse (1621–1692), executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials
  • Robert Nourse, entrepreneur
  • Victoria F. Nourse, American professor of law

Usage examples of "nourse".

Smith come to Lachine with his eye problem, word had reached Simpson that Chief Trader William Nourse, then in charge of that faraway region, had been incapacitated and badly needed medical attention.

Once in Labrador, Smith found Nourse paralysed, the victim of a serious stroke.

Smith placed the gravely il I Nourse aboard the annual supply ship, and by September his successor, Chief Trader Richard flardisty, had arrived from Montreal.

It extends from the Zaire on the north to the Nourse on the south, and its chief towns are the ports of Benguela and of St.

It extends from the Nourse, in the south, as far as the Zaire in the north, and the two principal towns form two ports, Benguela and St.

Sisley and the babby ar lodjing with the wett nourse and wen Franseis is weand they wil goe to Sisleys kindread at Cobchirche.

Francis Nourse and his wife, Rebecca, had a controversy about the occupation of a farm with a family named Endicott.

The Endicott children went into hysterics and charged that Rebecca Nourse had bewitched them.

A monument was recently erected to Rebecca Nourse on the hill where she perished, and her descendants have an organization which holds annual meetings in commemoration of their hapless ancestor.

Ruggles, Nourse and Mason, in whose establishment the modern plow was brought to perfection, and a great variety of other agricultural implements invented and improved.

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Star Surgeon, by Alan Nourse This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

But this was drawne of six vnequall beasts,On which her six sage Counsellours did ryde,Taught to obay their bestiall beheasts,With like conditions to their kinds applyde:Of which the first, that all the rest did guyde,Was sluggish Idlenesse the nourse of sin.

At last the Nourse in her foolhardy witConceiu'd a bold deuise, and thus bespake.

The godly Matrone by the hand him bearesForth from her presence, by a narrow way,Scattred with bushy thornes, and ragged breares,Which still before him she remou'd away,That nothing might his ready passage stay:And euer when his feet encombred were,Or gan to shrinke, or from the right to stray,She held him fast, and firmely did vpbeare,As carefull Nourse her child from falling oft does reare.

Not he, whom Greece, the Nourse of all good arts,By Phoebus doome, the wisest thought aliue,Might be compar'd to these by many parts:Nor that sage Pylian syre, which did suruiueThree ages, such as mortall men contriue,By whose aduise old Priams cittie fell,With these in praise of pollicies mote striue.