He maintained that they would stoop just as much in gardening, and washing and nursing their children, as in sewing; and that we were not such frail or unpliant machines as to be seriously injured, unless we persisted in one set of straight, formal notions, but that we were adapted to variety, and were benefited by it.

When she grew up she wished very much to learn how to nurse the sick.

" The two little souls scuttled away into the gathering dark, and the neighbour woman sat down by the fire to nurse the baby and croon and await the clothing for which she had sent.

"A little, tidy, good-looking woman sat by the fire, nursing an infant at the breast.

With the exception of a few houses beyond the hospital, spared at the entreaty of Soeur Julie, and on her promise to nurse the German wounded, the whole town was deliberately burnt out, house by house, the bare walls left standing, the rest destroyed.

He cut short his tour and returned to Hampstead, where he had to nurse his younger brother Tom, a consumptive invalid, who died in December of the same year.

She had nursed Birkendelly's mother, and been dry-nurse to himself and sister; and having more than a mother's attachment for the latter, when she was married, old Lucky left her country to spend the last of her days in the house of her beloved young lady.

Crushed by this Socratic reasoning, Priam kept silence, nursing his knees and staring into the fire.

" "And yet you nursed the old man and were kind to him, I believe, after the offense.

But whatever took place, a dangerous criminal like Birchill would not require much provocation to silence a man who interrupted him while he was on business bent, and a man, moreover, against whom he nursed a bitter grudge.

In July, 1668, she was once more at the parental home, to nurse her father, who was dangerously ill.

And, in such nooks as this, there may be found many decent working people, who have been accustomed to live a cleanly life in their humble way in healthy quarters, now reduced to extreme penury, pinching, and pining, and nursing the flickering hope of better days, which may enable them to flee from the foul harbour which strong necessity has driven them to.

" "Was a fellow," said Nabbes, nursing one foot, "that set me easy about my soul, and the thing.

She also, at risk to her own family, went to nurse her sister Hannah, in what turned out to be scarlet fever, about which she says, that "she did not know what malady it was when she went; and that she was the only sister then at liberty to wait on her."

"So you are nursing your husband," he murmured abstractedly, as he bent over the bed.

Yea since we are come forth from our sore troubles let us not fall into the desolation of crownlessness, neither nurse our griefs; but having ease from our ills that are past mending, we will set some pleasant thing before the people, though it follow hard on pain: inasmuch as some god hath put away from us the Tantalos-stone that hung above our heads, a curse intolerable to Hellas.

He continued to nurse his grievance with all the pertinacity of a Mahratta; but at the same time he professed a great love for European society, and was profuse in his hospitalities to English officers.

He gets very little, and he has to pay a woman to nurse his sick wife. . . .

"Winfrida is thereand yetand yet aye, let us to Blaen, there will I nurse thee to thy strength again, my Beltane, and there shalt thouwed with mean it be so thy pleasure in sooth, my lord.

"Would you care to nurse our wounded soldiers?"

My only solace, only joy, Since the sad day I lost my mother, Is nursing her own Willy boy, My little orphan brother.

The poor woman sank on the nearest chair, as some one who has been nursing a patient that suddenly turns out to have small-pox or leprosy.

It was the logical, fatal outcome of the situationgiven a wife whom her husband had perverted, a mother who refused to nurse her babe.

"Well, if you feel that way, I don't see why you won't let me replace the statue," said Teddy, still nursing his disappointment.

As Sofia and Victor entered one man dropped his weapon and, grunting, fell back from his window to nurse a shattered hand.