nurserymaid

"I will," said Servilia hardily, and off she marched, her nurserymaid hurrying after her.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Only when Cornelia Scipionis returned were the children seen, banished under the escort of a weeping and shivering nurserymaid; the mother knelt again opposite Marius, as helpless as he.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

That functionary was a good-hearted, tearful, scatter-brained girl, lately taken by Tom's mother, Madam Brown, as she was called, from the village school to be trained as nurserymaid.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

In the letters of a former nurserymaid — I give her name, Jean Mitchell, honoris causa — we are enabled to feel, even at this distance of time, some of the bitterness of that month of bereavement.

Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

It was easily come by, but he was of opinion that if he had not had it, "if I had been brought up a milksop, with a nurserymaid everlastingly at my heels, I should have been this day as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces called Colleges and Universities."

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

Dickens tells us of a nurserymaid who elaborated it into

Treatise on Parents and Children George Bernard Shaw 1903

Consequently the highly intelligent and sensitive adult hands the child over to a nurserymaid who has no nerves and can therefore stand more noise, but who has also no scruples, and may therefore be very bad company for the child.

Treatise on Parents and Children George Bernard Shaw 1903

This is a blasphemous lie; and the fact that it is on the lips of every nurserymaid does not excuse it in the least.

Treatise on Parents and Children George Bernard Shaw 1903

When some unusually conscientious or enterprising bacteriologist reads the pamphlets of Jenner, and discovers that they might have been written by an ignorant but curious and observant nurserymaid, and could not possibly have been written by any person with a scientifically trained mind, he does not feel that the whole edifice of science has collapsed and crumbled, and that there is no such thing as smallpox.

Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903

If you are a nurserymaid, attend to your duties; and do not presume to ape your elders.

Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903