wet-nurse

I didn't engage to wet-nurse its infants with bank accounts.

A GOBOTO NIGHT 2010

CNN, how about you just report the news, and don't play wet-nurse for a bunch of loser Republicans.

Obama vs. Bush: Who had it easier on court nominations? 2010

Olympiodorus refers to Elpidia as a trophos, which usually indicates a wet-nurse, like the Latin nutrix.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

At his ‘earling’ upon the lake, the baby Titus casts away those ancient symbols of his office into the water and reaches out towards the orphaned daughter of his wet-nurse Keda, his foster sister who will become the feral child ‘The Thing’.

Empty Your Heart Of Its Mortal Dream 2010

What's 'appened t' me since I made the mistake o 'temporarily comin' out o 'the gutter is that I was stuck as wet-nurse t' the lad, and now I've got meself sort o 'swept along a course I can't change or swim out of.

A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

An ancient biography of Tiberius notes that Livia herself employed a wet-nurse, or nutrix, to look after her son, one of the very few glimpses we have of this period of her life.23 Yet it is important, for it plugs directly into Roman thinking about the ideal woman, a yardstick against which Livia and her successors as Roman first lady would be judged.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

And if you was to wet-nurse him, why did he have you galloping your arse off all day?

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Incidentally, we have learned that there were women in the sect whose permanent or temporary profession was that of wet-nurse.

Qumran. 2009

The halakhah evidently means that in order for the child not to become contaminated by its mother, she must give it to a wet-nurse who will nurse him while she is impure.

Qumran. 2009

These servants, especially the wet-nurses, were usually hired by Jewish men, who secured the terms of employment with the husband or family of the servant or wet-nurse.

Medieval Ashkenaz (1096-1348). 2009