The long-buried superstitions of the nursery were reviving, and asserting their power over my imagination.
In rhymes and jingles, nicknames, proverbs, riddles and nursery tales we find traces of very early tradition.
The Children's Rooms--The nursery and its furnishings.
Children were kept in the nursery and were sent early to bed, and young ladies were presented to her Gracious Majesty the Queen, and then went to balls in good stiff silks and no wings nor clouds about 'em.
Putting the ring in its morocco case, she opened the baize door which led to the nursery part of the house, and soon found herself in Mrs. Martin's apartments.
His tin soldiers were sailing about on books on the sea of the nursery floor, and Toddles was firing first at one ship, and then at another, with a large glass marble.
At home, the afternoon wore away, tea-time came; nurse ran down from the nursery to the dining-room to fetch her two little charges.
At four o'clock that same afternoon Toddles and Trot were sitting side by side on the nursery floor, looking and feeling very unhappy and miserable.
The speech which Trot had overheard suggested all kinds of plans, and she made her way into the nursery to talk over the party once more with Toddles.
Sparingly must we drink of the waterskin, Waterskin made of a nursery jug.
She was in the nursery when the thought struck her, rocking slowly in her low sewing-chair, holding the baby on one arm and trying to darn stockings with the other.
So after a few questions put to Mr. Tracy, and more to Harold, who was summoned from the nursery to tell what he knew, a verdict was rendered of "Frozen to death.
I’ve bought her every gimcrack that’s made for children—her nursery looks like a toy factory.
He had shed a few tears at Miss Redwood's departure and I liked him for them, for they showed his loyalty, but he had no more games of the nursery nor the mawkish sentimentality that I found upon the nursery shelves.
We're building a day nurseryon the next block to help the working women.
But you're going to have it, you know, when the day nursery is done.
They did have a little spare room that he could have made into a nursery for the baby, but Lee wasn't satisfied with it after we looked at it.
The plant is alluded to in an old English nursery rhyme, in which a garden allowed to run wild is said to be "Full of weeds and Cockle seeds.
In England, there is a nursery legend which relates how the three daughters of a widow were one day sent into the kitchen garden to protect the Cabbages from the ravages of a grey horse which was continually stealing them.
When the puppies were born, Yama and the survivor were established by me in a most comfortable kennel in the same garden, with a day nursery and a night nursery (covered and open) for the comfort and safety of the puppy.
The nursery had to be installed in this insalubrious spot on account of the sylvan and capricious nurses, accustomed to the unconstraint of the stable.
The gloomy-walled apartment is so large that to the visitors at first the nursery seems to be deserted.
I couldn't even compose a nursery rhyme if my life depended upon it.
She managed her nursery with the tactics of a general, reducing small rebels to a state of submission with admirable skill, and keeping order among her noisy little crew with a firm though just hand.
Accustomed to spend most of my time with my father, I thought it hard to be restricted to the nursery and school-room, and instead of being the centre of my little world, to be only one of a flock who were not favoured with many indulgences.
There were so many of them, and of such various ages, that when I entered the nursery I might have supposed myself for the moment in an infant school.
I had lived almost entirely in the nursery and school-room, and on the few occasions when I had been allowed to come down to the drawing-room the conversation was certainly far from intellectual.
Thus a belief in witchcraft still flourishes amongst our agricultural labourers and the lowest class in our great cities, and the deities of our ancestors survive in the nursery tales of our children.
True that one was only colonial, and hardly ranked higher than the nursery hearth brush.
Even in her nursery she had a very distinct notion that, for her, marriage meant promotion.
This proves that evennursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement.
Here is the peculiar perfection of tone and truth in the nursery tales.
But the matter for important comment was here: that when I first went out into the mental atmosphere of the modern world, I found that the modern world was positively opposed on two points to my nurse and to the nursery tales.
The arrival of the infant made him more than ever feel as if he were a married man; for he had all the delights of the nursery in addition to his previous discipline.
I do not; but the West Indies add to her wealth and her commercial prosperity, to her nursery of seamen and her exhausted revenue.
An hour or two later, Mrs. Marshall came into the nursery to see the little girl whom her son had insisted on having as his guest.
Miss Drayton and Pat went into the nursery and found the children at supper.
For a few moments after that I went on thinking about the nursery governess.
So prematurely demure is this plain little girl that, in spite of the fact that her hair is "down" and that she wears a round nursery cap, she is dignified with the title of "A Lady.
He established the Bushberg nursery which for many years was the leading grape nursery of this country.
For several years he practiced medicine but in 1858 purchased a nursery which was the beginning of his connection with the fruit business.
Most of his grape productions were introduced to the public by Stayman & Black, a nearby nursery firm.
His nursery has for thirty-one years been located at Denison, Texas.
He early engaged in the nursery business and about 1860 began to experiment in hybridizing grapes, his first production of note being Diana Hamburg which proved too tender to be of value in New York.
Thompson, of Nursery Hill, Nebraska, in the United States Department of Agriculture Report for 1866.
This garden afterward became a commercial nursery from which was distributed a considerable number of European grapes.
Once every day or two she'd come to the nursery just long enough to rub a bit of her complexion on the children's faces.
Your first garden should be in a shallow box, called a "flat," which you may consider a kind of nursery for the plants.
In taking the young tree from the nursery row only a fraction of the original roots go with the tree, and these are badly bruised at the point of cleavage.
On young or small stocks, like nursery trees, the cleft-graft is not practicable, and a different form of grafting is employed; but the teacher will not care to be confused with further details.
