Nursed

Examples

• He was nursed into power--generously and unsuspiciously. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And it gained its point after all, for I saw it through the window within a few minutes, being nursed by little Jane. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A nervous fever was the consequence; during which he was nursed by the daughter of a poor cottager, under whose roof he lodged. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She has nursed me by day and a hired nurse has looked after me by night, for in my mad fits I was capable of anything. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Long and tenderly she nursed me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He would leave that forever behind him with the great hopes he had nursed there of finding his own race and becoming a man among men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Then hunger closed the gap between them, and the son of an English lord and an English lady nursed at the breast of Kala, the great ape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I nursed three of her children. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The appetite for admiration and small capacity for self-controul which I inherited from my father, nursed by adversity, made me daring and reckless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Nursed her as a baby, and came with her to England when they first left Australia, eighteen months ago. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Isabelle, the child whom I had once nursed in sickness, approached me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You will find my sister in his room, for she has nursed him hand-and-foot this two months back. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It means that, if I have given you nothing else, I at least gave you life; that I bore you, nursed you; that I am your true mother. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• After that, she took the baby out of its little cradle, and nursed it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Then Caddy hung upon her father and nursed his cheek against hers as if he were some poor dull child in pain. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It's of a woman; the hag that nursed his mother. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• And how he provides now for an old woman who nursed his mother, and never tells anyone, but is just as generous and patient and good as he can be. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Esther nursed them, coaxed them to sleep, washed and dressed them, told them stories, kept them quiet, bought them keepsakes--My dear girl! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In some of Henry's ailments I have nursed him--better, she said, than any woman could nurse. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I believe, Mr. Moore, griefs and fears nursed in silence grow like Titan infants. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I nursed them all three. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I nursed her from a baby, sir, bringing her up by hand--and a hard job it was to rear her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I took the little baby in my arms when it was awake, and nursed it lovingly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Edited by Bonita