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Churches, charities, non-profits, and benevolent corporations are standing ready to nurse-maid those too weak and lazy to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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From one issue the notes of a piano, which a young lady in ringlets practises six hours daily, to the delight of the fellow-lodgers: at another, lovely Polly, the nurse-maid, may be seen dandling Master Omnium in her arms: whilst Jacob, his papa, is beheld eating prawns, and devouring the Times for breakfast, at the window below.
Vanity Fair 2006
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To Flaüss — to everyone — Svenson was a family retainer, a nurse-maid, essentially dismissible.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006
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To Flaüss — to everyone — Svenson was a family retainer, a nurse-maid, essentially dismissible.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006
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On the left is Megalopis sitting in the lap of her German nurse-maid.
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The replacement ranged from the 1937 baby sitter young person hired to “mind” children but not to instruct them to the more professional nurse-maid for taking care of infants.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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(“Charley”) Langdon, her little daughter Julia, and her nurse-maid.
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The replacement ranged from the 1937 baby sitter young person hired to “mind” children but not to instruct them to the more professional nurse-maid for taking care of infants.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Susy, and the nurse-maid were all properly garbed for the occasion.
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The “Mark Twain” party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Clemens, Miss Spaulding, little Susy and Clara (“Bay”), and a nurse-maid, Rosa, sailed on the Holsatia, April 11, 1878.
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