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  • Within minutes of the time you receive this a nurse-girl will have been choked to death in Brentwood Park.

    The Minions of Midas 2010

  • The next morning the first one of us was smitten with the plague -- a little nurse-girl in the family of Professor

    Page 4 2010

  • There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirt - ing with a nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths.

    Sole Music 2010

  • No sooner was the door opened than I ran down into the hall; there lay a trunk and some band-boxes, beside them stood a person like a nurse-girl, and at the foot of the staircase was

    Villette 2003

  • When the company broke up in the spring, he found me a place as nurse-girl in a family that he knew, and said, that in the fall, a friend of his was going to organize an opera-troupe, and that he would try and get me in, for by that time, I had sung for him, and said that opera was what I had rather be in.

    Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving

  • Each morning it became harder to leave that supplicating little face, and she would turn back to reiterate cautions to Molly, who, being out of school now, saved the extra expense of the little nurse-girl.

    Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

  • There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirt - ing with a nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths.

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

  • "Now, Snap," said Nan, pointing her finger at the dog, "I want you to show Dorothy how you play nurse-girl, and carry a doll."

    The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat Laura Lee Hope

  • But in caring for them and for the household all alone, for they could not afford a servant or a nurse-girl, all her vitality had been sapped, all her originally superb energy had dwindled down to nothing; her nerves were worn to a frazzle and she became but a shadow of her former self.

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

  • There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirt - ing with a nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths.

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

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