"Wet-nurse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this offer very well, and accordingly hired a coach on purpose, and taking my child, and a wet-nurse to tend and suckle it, and a maid-servant with me, away I went ...
— The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. • Daniel Defoe
... was born, as I lay in my silken cradle, gazing with astonished dismay on the new world round about me, my mother spoke to the wet-nurse, ...
— The Madman • Kahlil Gibran
... deny, are more than sufficient to get acquainted with a town. San Diego has a population of six thousand souls and I knew every inhabitant as well as if I had been his mother and wet-nurse. I knew in which foot this one was lame, where the shoe pinched that one, who was courting that girl, what affairs she had had and with whom, who was the real father of the child, and so on—for I was the confessor of every last one, and they took care not to ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... with many this office would not only be highly injurious to their own health, but materially so to that of their offspring. This may arise from various causes, hereafter to be noticed, but whenever they exist a wet-nurse is demanded. ...
— The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease. • Thomas Bull, M.D. |
