What is "nurserymaid"

Usage examples of "nurserymaid".

The nurserymaid hummed constantly, Molly smiled, and even Smytheton did not look quite so fierce lately.

Servilia hardily, and off she marched, her nurserymaid hurrying after her.

One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard, and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown.

Before we left, we made arrangements to send the youthful nurserymaid back to England.

I found the nurserymaid cowering in a corner and Violet standing atop a heap of discarded garments, screaming that they were all too ugly, too tight, or too crumpled.

Every frock the child owned was strewn on the bed or the floor, and Lina was sitting in the middle of the hearth rug howling with rage, while Rose, the nurserymaid, stared helplessly at her.

Eventually Lina had been captured by the nurserymaid and carried upstairs howling and kicking.

Anyone who knows them will understand why a Norfolk nurserymaid when taken to Grasmere complained that she felt unable to breathe and that the mountains spoilt the view.

Aunt Elizabeth carried the babies into the chapel, so the nurserymaid was able to spare her a moment.

James lay in the arms of the nurserymaid and Aunt Elizabeth, who was glad to get off her feet, and the little boys stared in wide-awake astonishment at the glowing lanterns and ignored all their well-wishers, who moved on speedily to the collation table for cider and ham anyway.

Palatine and the Carinae, when women gave their children into the charge of nurserymaids from every part of the globe?

Drusus helped the little girl up and ushered her outside to where one of the nurserymaids hovered doubtfully in the distance.

Even her own daughter she found boring, and left in the company of the nurserymaids, so that little Aemilia Lepida was more spoiled than disciplined.

Little Greeks or Thracians or Celts or whatever other nationality the nurserymaids might happen to be.

The servants had been summoned back to duty, so Drusus helped the little girl up and ushered her outside to where one of the nurserymaids hovered doubtfully in the distance.