nurse-mother

“Pliny (an ancient Latin writer) gives it this character: "Italy is the nurse-mother of all nations, elected by the Gods to make the Heavens more glorious, and unite the dispersed governments of the world.”

A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses

“It was his first venture into the world with the loss of his member, and the nurse-mother could not find it in her heart to tell the boy that not a word which he spoke was understandable.”

At the Battle-Fronts in the Great War

“But one day he sold the bag which he had first made to a visitor, and with his face radiant with glee he sought the nurse-mother to tell her all about his good fortune.”

At the Battle-Fronts in the Great War

“Whether the child infected the nurse-mother or the mother the child was not certain, but the last most likely.”

A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London