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How to use wet-nurse in a sentence

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He lights instead on an octoroon from Baltimore and a Frenchwoman brought up in the Calcutta Botanic Garden by a Bengali wet-nurse.
Soon afterwards, a few infants along with a wet-nurse were brought into the Motherhouse, and Louise assigned several Sisters to care for them.
The potential role of the wet-nurse, in this context, begins to take on different significance.
Johnson's health improved and he was put to wet-nurse with Joan Marklew.
Here's a new one on turning against your former wet-nurse.
It's no more difficult to wet-nurse human infants.
The term midwife is used coterminously with wet-nurse in Bengali literature.
Examples from Classical Literature
Of course the reader recognises in her the wet-nurse who had exchanged her child.
The choosing of a wet-nurse is a matter of great moment and responsibility.
There was no wet-nurse to be had, but a woman from the village had been sent for.
It cannot be learned whether when he was staying with the wet-nurse he ever had convulsions.
I didn't engage to wet-nurse its infants with bank accounts.
The whole household were immediately sent in quest of a wet-nurse.
She was to be his wet-nurse, and to assume the whole charge of the infant.
Now this very Eudosia Halfacre has no more mother, in the last sense, than you have a wet-nurse.
Consequently, according to the Prime Minister, state-owned enterprises remain a wet-nurse and the foundation of corruption in the country.
There was considerable debate in the run up to George's birth over whether the duchess would hand her child off to a royal wet-nurse or feed through formula.
A stout waist, the plumpness of a wet-nurse, strong dimpled arms, red hands, were all in keeping with the swelling outlines and the fat whiteness of Norman beauty.
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