day-nurse

• “It never once occurred to me that Pam was listening on the kitchen intercom, she and the day-nurse both.”

  Duma Key

• “It never once occurred to me that Pam was listening on the kitchen intercom, her and the day-nurse both.”

  Blaze

• “My mother went through it unscathed in strength, though she performed all the work of day-nurse and night-nurse to a sick household; — for there were soon three of them dying.”

  An Autobiography

• “She remembered them now -- the gentle day-nurse and the gentle night-nurse, who had moved soft-footedly about her bed, performing soothing little offices.”

  Gloria and Treeless Street

• “His day-nurse it was who had the courage, womanlike, to bring the matter to an issue.”

  Kindred of the Dust

• “Rather fewer deaths; only two or three in the week; another this morning, from that horrible tetanus which had spared us for some time, thanks to the injections of serum, which have been lately more frequent; a poor young soldier of twenty that his day-nurse, an American here, used to call in motherly fashion by his Christian name, Andr-, and I did the same.”

  The Diary of a French Army Chaplain

• “In the earlier hours of the night, after the nurses had been changed, and Mary had gone to bed exhausted with stair-climbing, and Lily Holl was recounting the day to Dick up at the grocer's, and the day-nurse was already asleep, and the night-nurse had arranged the night, then, in the faintly-lit silence of the chamber, Constance would argue with herself for an hour at a time.”

  The Old Wives' Tale

• “Fortunately, the day-nurse had not left the house: I called her in to watch him for a minute, and, slipping on my bonnet, ran across.”

  Novel Notes

• “So the bargain was soon struck; and almost before she had discovered what was going to happen to her, Agnes found herself the day-nurse of the Lord Richard, the little Prince who was then in the cradle.”

  Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago

• “My mother went through it unscathed in strength, though she performed all the work of day-nurse and night-nurse to”

  Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

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