72 examples of nursemaids in sentences

In those walks the nursemaids and children, and dainty folk, are wandering as usual airing their curls in the fresh breeze; and only now and then a workless operative trails by with chastened look.

The Nursemaid " 8 to 12 " 5 to 10 The Under Laundry-maid " 9 to 11 " 8 to 12 The Kitchen-maid " 9 to 14 " 8 to 12 The Scullery-maid " 5 to 9 " 4 to 8

About £500 a yearA cook, housemaid, and nursemaid.

About £300 a yearA maid-of-all-work and nursemaid.

UPPER AND UNDER NURSEMAIDS.

Nursemaids would do well to repeat to the parents faithfully and truly the defects they observe in the dispositions of very young children.

So the policeman lingered for a while in the vicinity, but not hearing any revolver shot, presently sauntered on, buck-skinned fist clasped behind his broad back, squinting at a distant social gathering composed entirely of the most exclusive nursemaids.

Nursemaids and children were much in evidence under the surrounding trees; waitresses were flitting about hither and thither: there was nothing to suggest that this eminently London park scene was likely to prove the setting of the last act of a drama.

He often watched the troops of nursemaids and children whom he met during his afternoon strolls.

Nursemaids and children, bicyclists and others passed constantly to and fro.

But to-day everyone passes right through the gloomy canyon, for the railway now follows the windings of Pickering Beck, and nursemaids and children on their way to the seaside may gaze at the frowning cliffs which seventy years ago were only known to travellers and a few shepherds.

And then, as though to offset these added suggestions of danger, we saw children playing about quietly behind the piled sand-bags, guarded by plump Flemish nursemaids, and smart dogcarts constantly passed and repassed us, filled with well-dressed women, and with flowers stuck in the whip-sockets.

Now each tiny hand was carefully sealed with as many pairs of gloves as could be gathered together for the occasion; one hand (for the nursemaids are not very particular) being not seldom more richly endowed in this respect than its fellow.

To Stella, in the midst of his political warfare, he could write with the playfulness that nursemaids use for children, and most men keep for their kittens or puppies.

Sages have thought the army worth preserving for a dash of scarlet and a roll of the kettledrum; in every State procession it is the implements of death and the men of blood that we parade; and not to nursemaids only is the soldier irresistible.

Would you be willing to bear the expense of such an undertaking? To have me leave Jack to nursemaids and you to your logs?"

Will you be a soldier?" Then turning to one of his attendants, "I know the children by the nursemaids.

"Why do you soldiers always act like nursemaids toward civilians?"

Restless boys scramble to and fro, quiet nursemaids loiter, and a vagrant has sat down to rest though the bank is dripping with autumn rain.

why didn't you bring your nursemaids with you?" The 3rd Zouaves marched past the jeering veterans, grinding their teeth, but making no effort at retort.

Had they been nursemaids or servant girls, I should have expected it.

Bedford Reformatory, one of the two New York State institutions for delinquent women, in an examination of a group of one thousand women, found four hundred and thirty general houseworkers, twenty-four chamber-maids, thirteen nursemaids, eight cooks, and thirty-six waitresses.

Of these ninety-two were domestics, one was a lady's maid, and nine were nursemaids.

If people had said that epics were only fit for children and nursemaids, 'Paradise Lost' might have been an average pantomime: it might have been called 'Harlequin Satan, or How Adam 'Ad 'em.'

There were a few small stores opposite, while the park itself was well kept, and populated almost entirely by nursemaids, judging from the number of baby carriages trailing along the walks.

72 examples of  nursemaids  in sentences