wet-nurses

The streets were alive with the sound of military music as 8,000 smartly suited soldiers marched at a precise 116 steps a minute, and Tiananmen Square swelled with enough tanks and missile power to make the North Koreans look like wet-nurses.

A Spoonful of Sugar Roseann M. Lake 2010

The streets were alive with the sound of military music as 8,000 smartly suited soldiers marched at a precise 116 steps a minute, and Tiananmen Square swelled with enough tanks and missile power to make the North Koreans look like wet-nurses.

Roseann M. Lake: A Spoonful of Sugar Roseann M. Lake 2010

The streets were alive with the sound of military music as 8,000 smartly suited soldiers marched at a precise 116 steps a minute, and Tiananmen Square swelled with enough tanks and missile power to make the North Koreans look like wet-nurses.

Roseann M. Lake: A Spoonful of Sugar 2010

Despite the fact that most members of the elite seem to have handed their children over to wet-nurses for suckling, many ancient sources criticized the practice and insisted that women should breast-feed their infants themselves.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Women who hired themselves out as wet-nurses might also be considered entrepreneurial, as they performed this service in exchange for money and accepted the responsibilities and risks that went along with that work.

Entrepreneurs. 2009

Some were wet-nurses and midwives; the latter, if successful, could even be found in the courts.

Spain. 2009

The streets were alive with the sound of military music as 8,000 smartly suited soldiers marched at a precise 116 steps a minute, and Tiananmen Square swelled with enough tanks and missile power to make the North Koreans look like wet-nurses.

Roseann M. Lake: A Spoonful of Sugar 2009

Were the children bonded to their wet-nurses, who nursed them as slaves or for hire?

Dan Agin: The Roots of Anti-Liberalism: Part III 2009

In some cases, Jews employed Christian women as domestic servants, as childminders and wet-nurses.

Medieval Ashkenaz (1096-1348). 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