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  • And lo! the first that I did see, was the Master of the Doctors; and I to perceive in a moment that he had wakened me, and had nurst my strength for that moment, that I live through the Burial.

    The Night Land 2007

  • And on the third day, as it might be called, I to come full unto my senses; and the pain to take me in the breast; and the Master of the Doctors did be with me, and they that nurst me; and the Master

    The Night Land 2007

  • In the modern Eclogue of Rosalind and Helen in particular, there is a pensive sadness, a delicious melancholy, nurst in the purest, the deepest recesses of the heart, and springing up like a fountain in the desert, that pervades the poem, and forms its principal attraction.

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • De one dat I nurst when a babie ordered me whipped 'case I cried so much when da sole my chillen down de riber.

    A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

  • In the golden arms of Glory and the lap of Victory nurst;

    Sagittulae, Random Verses Edward Woodley Bowling

  • What a letter do you think you have written me I could make bold to say, that never did she who bore me and nurst me, write anything SO delightful, so honey-sweet.

    Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

  • And lo! the first that I did see, was the Master of the Doctors; and I to perceive in a moment that he had wakened me, and had nurst my strength for that moment, that I live through the Burial.

    The Night Land: Chapter 16 1912

  • And on the third day, as it might be called, I to come full unto my senses; and the pain to take me in the breast; and the Master of the Doctors did be with me, and they that nurst me; and the Master Doctor watched me very keen and gentle.

    The Night Land: Chapter 16 1912

  • "There be no hatred fell and fere, and curst As by false virtue for true virtue nurst."

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • When thou hast drained deep draughts divinely nurst

    Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1882

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