nurse-child

Many of these young women come to Madrid on the chance of finding situations, leaving their own babies behind to be fed by hand, or Heaven knows how; they bring with them a young puppy to act as substitute until the nurse-child is found, and may be seen in the registry offices waiting to be hired, with their little canine foster-children.

Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

One supposes he is a nurse-child, received by my parents.

Sacred and Profane Love Arnold Bennett 1899

"If she doesn't make it up with that good man," Mrs. Ellmother thought, on her way back to the house, "my nurse-child is what I have never believed her to be yet -- she's a fool."

I Say No Wilkie Collins 1856

The poor fellow was delighted that his nurse-child, as he always called little Katie, had not forgotten him, but evinced the most lively satisfaction at the sight of her dark friend.

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

The poor fellow was delighted that his nurse-child, as he always called little Katie, had not forgotten him, but evinced the most lively satisfaction at the sight of her dark friend.

Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

She shed some tears while she said this, and assured Lady Moncton that the baby's death had occasioned her as much grief as if he had been her own -- that she would much rather that I had died than her dear nurse-child.

The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I Susanna Moodie 1844

The poor fellow was delighted that his nurse-child, as he always called little

Life in the Backwoods Susanna Moodie 1844

Lady Tavistock into a small chandler's shop, and given her a nurse-child to tend, her life would have been saved.

Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781

I knowe not how they should, since they will shut them out of the armes of nature, and leave them to the will of a stranger; yea to one that will seeme to estrange her selfe from her owne child, to give sucke to the nurse-child: This she may faine to doe upon a covetous composition, but she frets at it in her minde, if she have any naturall affection.

The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie 1622

I know not how they should, since they will shut them out of the armes of nature, and leave them to the will of a stranger; yea to one that will seeme to estrange her selfe from her owne childe, to give sucke to the nurse-child.

The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie 1622