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Example sentences for "nursemaid"

Lexicographically close words:
nur; nuri; nurse; nursed; nurseling; nursemaids; nurseries; nursery; nurseryman; nurserymen
  1. Thus far I had written, when the nursemaid brought me a little note, addressed in pencil.

  2. Let me only relate that we were interrupted by the appearance of the nursemaid at the pavilion door.

  3. The parlourmaid (a delightful creature who was, unfortunately, soon to make an excellent match above her station) amiably helped the nursemaid to get the perambulator down the steps.

  4. The parlourmaid wore her immutable uniform, and the nursemaid wore her immutable uniform.

  5. The nursemaid was the first to go, and her place was filled by a Roman Catholic.

  6. He urged on Mrs. Gaunt that she had too many Protestants in her household: her cook and her nursemaid ought, at all events, to be Catholics.

  7. A nursemaid may do much more harm by gently tickling a child's genital organs than by pressing them forcibly.

  8. I have seen children who have been taught sexual misconduct, either by a nursemaid or by other children, and have practised such misconduct for a time; but in whom a complete cure has resulted from separation from the seducer.

  9. Mrs Russell Taylor's nursemaid was crossing the court, with the baby in her arms, when she tripped over the string of Master Hampden Taylor's kite.

  10. Mrs Rowland meantime resumed her seat in the drawing-room, where the nursemaid was amusing the baby.

  11. Lady Hunter had not heard of it; and the relation therefore followed of: the burning down of a house and shop in Blickley, when a nursemaid and baby were lost in the flames.

  12. She feared the nursemaid would come before all the sparks were out; and she tried to quiet the baby by dancing it before the mirror over the mantelpiece.

  13. The nursemaid was a girl from the village.

  14. So our hero, for such I may perhaps term him, found himself the degraded nursemaid of a small but furious kid.

  15. She waited till the children were pacified, and had returned to their play, and then she took the little nursemaid by the arm, and led her to the door.

  16. The child's nursemaid he'd lecture so, the poor girl would come down to me ready to bend double, like a bundle of nothing, his observations so took the pride out of her.

  17. She would always add a mysterious word or two in the hearing of my nursemaid or any friend of hers who looked into my room to see me.

  18. During that period of solitude, my nursemaid had to order me to play, and I would stumble about and squat in the middle of the floor, struck suddenly by the marvel of the difference between my present and my other home.

  19. Then, accompanied by the nursemaid carrying our simple evening-repast in a small basket, we used to seek out some spot from whence we could have a fine view of the country, and see the sun go down.

  20. So the Bishop like the nursemaid in my parable thought he knew better what clothes the baby ought to wear in the new perambulator, that is to say what services we ought to have in the new St. Wilfred's.

  21. But when the boy took the baby out again, the nursemaid told him that the baby had too many clothes on and said that he must either take some of the clothes off or else she must take away the new perambulator.

  22. By this time they had reached the gate, just as a nursemaid unlocked it to pass through with her charge.

  23. White Nursemaid Seven and Greasy Joe both received Pink Wastebasket's distress signal and got there as fast as their wheels would roll them, but the high-born machine's malady was beyond their simple skills of oilcan and electroshock.

  24. A few minutes later he was listening to the shrill and repeated assurances of the nursemaid that her previous experience of filthy spectacles had been on a notably smaller scale.

  25. Olivia, his two-year-old daughter, was accustomed to spend the hour from high noon till one o'clock with her father while the nursemaid gobbled and digested her dinner and novelette.

  26. The explanation of the whole affair is, when the nursemaid turned on her path thinking she had gone sufficiently far, the dog missed sight of the baby, and believed it was gone.

  27. Hooper writes me of a Newfoundland dog that was in the habit of accompanying the nursemaid and baby belonging to its mistress.

  28. No one was there except a nursemaid and a small child, and she and they shared the solitude.

  29. The ducks clambered out of the water, keeping their cunning black eyes fixed on the loitering children whom the nursemaid was urging to return home.

  30. Nursemaid and baby had disappeared from the little lawn.

  31. A young nursemaid cannot reach the heights of training and experience needed.

  32. As any woman is supposed to be a competent mother, so any woman is supposed to be a competent nursemaid or housemaid.

  33. What with Molly, Pender, and nursemaid I was so well kept in cunt, that I only occasionally went back to London.

  34. There were several summer-houses about the grounds, and I had the nursemaid in most of them.

  35. Nursemaid moving about with the child in all sorts of places, came in for the most cock.

  36. There must have been something in my face, for the nursemaid said: "What it the matter, what have you been doing to the baby?

  37. Nursemaid was a dry, plainish little woman whom I had scarcely noticed until the previous three days.

  38. I had luncheon, and a cock-stand again, walked round the grounds, and saw the nursemaid with the child.

  39. I pulled out my cock when she left, and thought of imitating the page, but did not; from my window saw the nursemaid was out with the child, and strolled out to meet her.

  40. My nursemaid I expect thought this curious, and tried to remedy the error in my make, and hurt me.

  41. Nursemaid I advised to avoid the page, or I would never have anything to do with her more.

  42. The nursemaid put him into the bed, my aunt standing by the side, her feet actually against my slippers.

  43. You have a new nursemaid for Joey," said I to my aunt.

  44. I pulled one leg away to see better, the child awakened and began crying, I heard footsteps and had barely time to pull down her clothes, when the under nursemaid came in.

  45. Because, at a period when such things were undreamed of, even in fiction, she rose from nursemaid to title.

  46. Emma reappeared from the asterisk cloud in London, where she was nursemaid in the house of a Doctor Budd, one of the physicians at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

  47. She did not know of anyone in need of a nursemaid or nursery-governess.

  48. Having brought her work with her, the nursemaid retired to the summer-house and diligently plied her needle, looking at Kitty from time to time through the open door.

  49. Wondering what had become of her father and her governess, Kitty had asked the nursemaid to look for them.

  50. The nursemaid had missed the child, and had come into the garden to see if she was with her mother.

  51. Catherine and her child, with the nursemaid in attendance, were left alone in the garden.

  52. The nursemaid was not near enough to hear what followed.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nursemaid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amah; chambermaid; chaperon; companion; cook; duenna; gentlewoman; girl; handmaid; maid; mammy; nurse; nursemaid; servant; soubrette; wench