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.

Ned said that the Company was able to walk by itself at last, and that he was going to have a long holiday after his dry-nursing of it.

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

Some time before leaving England I had written to my old friend General Woon, commanding the troops at Abbotabad, asking him to provide me with a servant capable of dry-nursing a pair of Babes in the Wood throughout their sojourn in a strange land.