Waveney thought it was only the little man's natural pugnacity and habit of arguing, and that he did not really believe his own assertion; but though he pretended to grumble, he nursed his friend devotedly.
There used to be some friend who nursed them when they were ill, but she is living somewhere in the country with an invalid lady.
When Mollie had measles, he nursed her night and day, and when Waveney and Noel also sickened, he was so worn out that if a kindly friend had not come to his assistance, he would soon have been on a sick-bed.
When My Sorrow Was Born When my Sorrow was born I nursed it with care, and watched over it with loving tenderness.
Then, for some terrible moments, from the manner in which he nursed his injured member, agony seemed to supervene and shut out every other emotion.
He crossed his legs, and, drawing up one well-shod foot, nursed its ankle in his clasped hands.
I nursed my mother in her last illness," said Mildred, with tears in her eyes.
Poor papa died suddenly, but I nursed mamma all through her last long illness; there was only me to do everything, and she used to say that I was as handy as if I had learnt it in the hospitals.
But Josian on her knees begged his life, which was granted; she dressed his wounds, nursed him, and he was in as great favour as ever.
The idea of children being nursed by wild beasts is very common and stories of such are told in quite modern times.
At least I fully and sorrowfully understand one thing--you know no more about love than that baby younursed on the train.
To-morrow morning, eagerly but unwillingly, for I am loth to leave the society of the tender friends who have nursed me back to life.
The farmer nursed his purchase inside a fold of his plaid until the coach drew up before the door of the city hotel, when he ordered warm water, and bathed the little creature's wounded paw.
That was pussy Mirram's mistress then; and it was no wonder Mirram was fond of her, and proud to be nursed and carried about by her.
The mother nursed the little one for over ten moons (months), and after that she stayed with him until she died.
The mother seated herself and nursed the little fellow.
She was rather a stupid girl, heavy and round-faced, but she had nursedher grandmother well.
When he fell ill he had been sorely tempted to send for some of his money, and get himself nursed and cared for at the respectable lodging where he had put up.
I had rooms near my house furnished as a hospital, where I nursed friend or foe who came to me sick.
I nursedthese boys and they are part of myself; life would be utterly barren without them.
Lee nursed himself out of his settee, every bone in his gaunt frame now was aching with weariness.
They stared at the end of the assembly line; every twenty seconds it spit out a fractional horsepower motor onto a transport band which nursed the newborn engine into the rows of testing machines.
Excuse it," Sandy murmured, smiling as Lans nursed his silk-enclosed ankle.
When Senor and I found him, he had an attack o' mountain fever, but I brought him to my tent and nursed him round.
My boss has two little uns at his ranch, and I've nursed 'em often.
Some people found her, took her in, and nursed her.
But why didn't the people who nursed her tell her she was wanted?
But a knew how that my lass had taken his wife into her bed, and nursed her through her sickness night and day, after the hard words he had spoken unto her and the ill names he had called her.
My wife had nursed the Lady Margaret from the moment of her birth; and here I must make another digression.
The old hotel was ready; but by the time he got there Mr. Fletcher was past caring where he went, and for a week was too ill to know any thing, except that Christie nursed him.
A gable in the middle made a sunny recess, where were stored bags and boxes of seed, bunches of herbs, and shelves full of those tiny pots in which baby plants are born and nursed till they can grow alone.
First, she had nursed him so tenderly that he could not but feel grateful to her; then she had been cast upon his care in dangers and difficulties of many kinds, so that deep interest in her had sprung up.
She had nursed Edward through a severe illness, and he was resolved to nurse her in return.
The nature of the case inspired tenderness; the gentleness and care with which she had nursed him required it; and their very youth justified it.
Lying there, he is nursed and tended for some days by the women as carefully as though he were the actual sufferer.
Feuds between families are nursed for generations; the war is seldom more than one of words, however, unless a murder is to be avenged, and consists of mutual vituperations, and singing obscene songs about each other.
Childbirth, as elsewhere among aboriginals, is accompanied with but little inconvenience, and children are often nursed until three or five years old.
Nursed by two lovely and affectionate daughters, he enjoyed a peaceful happiness he had never known amidst all the bustle, intrigue, and rivalry of his younger days.
A sigh which had been nursed in the dream, now found expression, and instantly a movement was heard, in a distant part of the cave; and a female bent over him, and perfumed his burning brow.
A lazy lot—this Karl Yundt, nursed by a blear-eyed old woman, a woman he had years ago enticed away from a friend, and afterwards had tried more than once to shake off into the gutter.
In the year 1763, above half of the Indians of this island perished by a strange fever, which the Europeans who nursed them never caught; they appear to be a race doomed to recede and disappear before the superior genius of the Europeans.
You must not imagine, from the recital of these facts, that they enjoyed any exclusive privileges or royal charters, or that they were nursed by particular immunities in the infancy of their settlement.
He found that Alice and her lover had gone down to see Hardwick in Polwellin, therefore he nursed his wrath until they returned, and it lost nothing by the delay.
Night and day Alice and the housekeeper nursed him by turns, and he seemed grateful for their attentions, although he said very little to either.
It was a good five minutes from the time he recovered consciousness until he was able to assume a sitting posture, when he rested his battered face in his hands and nursed his bruises.
He crossed his legs and nursed an ankle with both hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nursed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
