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Examples
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"That's right," he said with a kind of nursely playfulness, and he turned to the groom.
It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914
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Well, at least she didn't get there by using her advanced nursely skills to perform behind-the-speakers-chair abortions with cocktail umbrellas for Tory gents - catholic and otherwise - whose sad mistresses couldn't use the NHS "on principle".
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My mother used to be full of nursely care and tender administrations for three days and then, boy, were you expected to be better.
Tidy Girl. Spinningfishwife 2008
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It seemed to her a cold, sterile excuse for a nursely.
Daring Deception Hiatt, Brenda 1993
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She spoke in a tone of nursely authority, and with a faint smile he obeyed her orders.
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a gobstick, coming on ever so nerses nursely, gracies to goodess, at 81.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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