foster-children

The connexion between them and their foster-children was considered a tie far too dearly intimate to be broken; and it usually happened, in the course of years, that the nurse became a resident in the family of her foster-son, assisting in the domestic duties, and receiving all marks of attention and regard from the heads of the family.

The Black Dwarf 2004

The giving of milk, in accordance with the common primitive belief in the virtue attaching to an action in itself, was held to constitute a relation of quasi-maternity between the nurse and infant, and hence of fraternity between her own children and her foster-children.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

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

Three fair foster-children are mine, and one may he yet have to wife, will he but bow to the will of the people, who have chosen me their King. '

Celtic Tales, Told to the Children Louey Chisholm

In the third poem of this class, _Grimnismal_, a prose introduction relates that Odin and Frigg quarrelled over the merits of their respective foster-children.

The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday

Betty now thought it was time to take her foster-children into the world, before winter came.

Dick and His Cat and Other Tales Florence M. [Illustrator] Cooper

There are no more children like my foster-children.

Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

"Thus peasant-women are very anxious to have grown-up princesses become then foster-children -- the latter simply bite gently the breasts of their foster-mothers, and forthwith a close relationship subsists between them."

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

The three human foster-children who have been taken nearest into Nature's bosom, perhaps, -- an odd triad, surely, for the whimsical nursing mother to select, -- are Wordsworth,

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

Nancy knew instinctively that her two foster-children had something they wished to say to her, and she purposely kept them at arm's length, whilst she enjoyed their discomfiture.

Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road 1921