Death himself has met her at so many a bedside, that he puts forth his bony hand to greet Nurse Toothaker.
Yet there was a time when Rose Grafton--such was the pretty maiden name of Nurse Toothaker--possessed beauty that would have gladdened this dim and dismal chamber as with sunshine.
And Nurse Toothaker alone, with her own shrivelled lips, could make known her experience in that capacity.
And Nurse Toothaker holds a teaspoon in her right hand, with which to stir up the contents of a tumbler in her left, whence steams a vapory fragrance, abhorred of temperance societies.
No nurse would remain more than thirty-six hours at any price; and even his wife, whose ideas of marital duty were as rigid as her social code, lost her patience upon one occasion and rated him soundly.
When he returned to his old home and installed Cleo as his housekeeper and nurse she was the living incarnation before his eyes daily of the problem to be solved--the incarnation of its subtleties and its dangers.
I'm a nurse and housekeeper, if you please, and there happens to be a trace of negro blood in my veins, but a white soul throbs beneath this yellow skin.
She's the most wonderful nurse I ever saw--the baby's simply crazy about her!
He had loved this old nurse since he could remember.
Every morning early the nurse brought the baby in for a romp as soon as he waked and mammy came to relieve the tired watcher.
He found mammy, told her the solemn truth, and sent her to hire a nurse for the baby.
Both were silent for several minutes and a smile began to play about the blue eyes when she spoke at last: "You remember how angry you were that morning when you found a doctor and a nurse in charge of your home?
Under the care of the little hospital and the gentle nurse the children improved rapidly, and in two weeks were outdoors, playing with the little black children and even creeping into classrooms and listening.
She's a nurse now, and I asked to have her come and attend you.
Emma's course in nurse-training had been simple and short and there was no resident physician; but Emma, in her unemotional way, was a born nurse and did much good among the sick in the neighborhood.
I know my poor old nurse is in sad trouble, and that there must be times when she feels all the past cruelly.
How I do hate to see a nurse in black," exclaimed Gartram impatiently.
It was considered in a high degree disgraceful for a Roman mother to delegate to a nurse the duty of suckling her child.
Sure enough, there was the nurse wheeling the Curtis baby around the drive.
Good-morning," said Marjorie, who was friendly with Nurse Lisa.
Kitty had already gone toNurse to be freshened up.
I gave nurse a holiday, but I didn't realize how tiresome that heavy carriage is, after wheeling it so many blocks.
She felt sure that if she told Nurse Nannie or Kitty of her errand, they would raise objections, so she determined to steal off alone.
Nurse these wounded Indians back to life, visit the tribe, and watch!
She was Osmond's only child--squalling brat coming withnurse over Hounslow Heath.
With the rash presumption of youth, I offered to take the bow that he might rest; but he threw his head back with a loud laugh, more of scorn than mirth, and bade me nurse a wounded hand.
Twas good coin wasted," the old nurse vowed; but I must needs put some curb on her royalist tongue, which was ever running a-riot in that Puritan household.
The doctors tell me an experienced nurse is necessary, and we can find none willing to take so serious a case in such a rude, remote place.
So I am nursein a hospital, and out of it, too, when there is need.
It's the nurse woman they went for," gasped Captain Jeb, as the new arrival proceeded to step from boat to wharf with a light grace that scarcely needed Father Tom's assisting hand.
Mr. Prosper, in order to excuse his slackness in calling on the lady, had let it be known that he was not quite well, and Miss Thoroughbung had responded to this move by offering her services as nurse to her lover.
It had to be done in the light of day; and that little traveller with his nurse were with us.
Was she to go and live alone and desolate because you wanted some one to nurse you?
NURSE, to cheat, or swindle; trustees are said to NURSE property, i.
And oh, the goodness of people, the solicitude of nurseand doctor, the generosity of God!
Nina had had a nurse then, and Harriet practised French with both the boy and girl, but now the nurse was gone, and Ward could buy his own clothes, and Nina went to a finishing school.
Pip, recuperating with the amazing speed of childhood, was asleep, the other children walking, the nurse gone.
The sympathetic neighbours whispered it, the doctor said it gravely, the nurse muttered it in the kitchen, and the little sisters, clinging together, faltered it with trembling lips.
The doctor came, the nurse returned, Fred appeared at the door.
You are not strong enough for the work before us; and if you knock up, the object of my expedition will be defeated, for I shall have to nurse you instead of being able to hunt or carry on trade.
He said, however, that he should be satisfied if Mangaleesu could produce any one of the tribe who was present at the attack on our party, when the nurse was murdered and the child carried off.
For fain would I look on the storehouse where such marvels used to lurk, And the forge of fond desires, and the nurse of life that fails.
Her speech dropped dead as she spake, and her eyes from the nurse she turned, But now and again thereafter the flush in her fair cheek burned, And her eyes were dreamy and great, as of one who looketh afar.
Still all the day and the night-tide must Signy nurse her woe About the house of King Siggeir, nor any might she send: And again came the tale on the morrow: "Now are two more come to an end.
Gods is this, That men ever care for the morrow, nor nurse their toil-won bliss!
But Nora Whitney didn't seem to have anything to do but nurse dear Old Gray and read fairy stories.
The nurse smiled and turned down the blanket, and the baby opened his eyes.
He roused up the servants that were left, a cook named Steptoe and the housemaid, who said their mistress and the nurse and children had packed a few things and gone away in a cab with a friend, about an hour after he left.
The nurse showed by a perfectly natural question her absolute unsuspicion of a fox under the cloak.
Why is Lizarann content to watch the Children in the sun, to be dissociated from them as she lies upon the sand in the shade of that big white umbrella a guardian nurse manipulates in her interest?
But he let it pass, the more so that at that moment the nurse brought him something in a cup, which made him feel better.
A nurse who had passed through the room a few minutes before rather hurriedly was returning, with a slightly perplexed manner on her, as of one who had not found a thing sought for.
But the memory of the past years is too strong to allow belief that the thing will last--it is dismissed as a passing nightmare, as the nurse by the bedside of fever dismisses the wanderings of delirium.
Ask thenurse not to talk to anyone else till I can come," said Judith.
She'd come with her lady, as I make it out; just for the first go off, seeing the old mother's not handy for to nurse her up.
It was nurse who made this mental note, and who remarked also, when Miss Fossett left the child's bedside, that she looked that upset you quite noticed it.
The nurse in charge notes the fact, and contrives such alleviation as may be--an alteration in the angle of the couch, an adjustment of a pillow, a dose of some refreshing stimulant that seems not unwelcome.
Taylor would come and take his duties for a week or so, and he would go to Royd, and Bessie Caldecott would nurse him up, at the Rectory.
By her will she had ruled every nurse and servant about the place, and wheedled her father into letting her do anything the whim prompted.
The woman who usually taught the children was called away to nurse a sick neighbor, and the children were huddled together in a restless group.
The nurse walked as far as Broadway, holding Ida by the hand.
Then, actuated by a sudden impulse, she ran to the door, and had got it open when the nurse sprang forward, and seizing her by the arm, dragged her rudely back.
The nurse bit her lips in vexation at this unexpected recognition.
The nurse expressly desired that none of the family should accompany her, as she declared it highly important that the whereabouts of Ida's mother should not be known at once.
The nurse beckoned to her side a boy who was going through the cars selling apples and seed-cakes, and inquired their price.
The nurse seized Ida by the arm, and striding with her to the closet already spoken of, unlocked it, and rudely pushing her in, locked the door after her.
She had learned that long ago, and used it as a nurse does some old song to quiet her pettish infant.
The children had been meantime tumbled into their panniers, and the nurse mounted on her mule.
I hope in God that what you seem to fear will never happen; but even if it should, I shall never repent having married her, for I know that I am just as ready to be her nurse as to be her husband.
While nurse is getting your dinner ready, let's look out of window, and see if it's going to clear up.
Mother went away, sir, three days ago, to nurse uncle Bob at Bangbury," answered the girl.
I hoped that in course of time he would come to see how baseless his suspicions were, but in my joy I could nurse no anger against him.
I was sorry for Brunow, and, little as I valued him, I was grieved that he should nurse his groundless grudge against me; but there was nothing to be done at present.
It was late in the afternoon before he came, and the good fellow was full of sympathy about my accident, and was disposed to stop and nurse me through the effects of it.
Only the nurse of her children mistrusts her fiery eyes and thunderous silence, her viperish loose hair and throbbing skin.
She was just old enough to be trusted to nurse and tend the baby and she became a mother to it.
I lay a stress upon this because it is a thing of which people in her state are uncommonly susceptible, and which hardly anyone is at all aware of; a hired nurse never, even though in all other respects they are good kind of people.
I will nurse the remembrance of your steadiness and quiet which used to infuse something like itself into our nervous minds.
Nurse looks as if she would be considered as the first lady in the ward; only one seemed like to rival her in dignity.
But she returned only to die; and Mary was not there to nurse her.
Nurse is now established in Paradise, alias the incurable ward of Westminster Hospital.
At midnight, when I happen to awake, the nurse sleeping by the side of me, with the noise of the poor mad people around me, I have no fear.
