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.

And now it had been of little use to take a dry-nurse in her place, for Andree did not cease shrieking from morning till night.

tales, too, not in fancy to be compared with those of that venerable dry-nurse, Mother Bunch.

Mother Church is but a dry-nurse, singing while her infant moans; While anon a cake or rattle gives a little half-oblivion, And the sweetness and the glitter mingle with her drowsy tones.

They are the nurses of the line, and dry-nurses are of no use to locomotives.

Thank youto play the dry-nurse to three starving brats.

"What else besides being dry-nurse to the king of the Amalekites?"