10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NURSERYMAID»
Discover the use of
nurserymaid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nurserymaid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews
As for Sir Edward, he becomes the policeman who misdirects the nurserymaid
because he has rashly undertaken fixed point duty in a strange district much too
big for his powers of comprehension. One sees the nurserymaid turn in her ...
Bernard Shaw, Brian Tyson, 1996
2
Our servants, their duties to us and ours to them
In many houses the nurserymaid has her meals with the children and nurse. I
cannot consider this a good plan myself, for this reason. Even if your nurse is a
well-educated person, it is scarcely probably the nurserymaid will be so also ;
most ...
3
God the Invisible King (Extended Annotated Edition):
NURSERYMAID. Closely relatedtothe Heresy of Godthe Avenger, is that kind of
miniature God theAvenger,to whomthenurserymaid andthe overtaxed parent are
so apttoappeal. You stab your children with such aGod and he poisons ...
In his infancy he was a tremendous Democrat,—a sucking President Polk—
impatient of all authority, legal or otherwise, and greatly addicted to the
employment of physical-force arguments on the shins of his nurserymaid, whose
tibia and ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1849
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The H.G. Wells Anthology: A Collection of 149 Novels, ...
GOD AND THE NURSERYMAID Closely related tothe Heresy ofGod the Avenger
, is that kindof miniatureGodthe Avenger, to whomthe nurserymaid and the
overtaxed parent are soaptto appeal.You stabyour children with such aGodand
he ...
6
Self and Other: Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and ...
anxiety he experiences as a child at seeing a butterfly he had been chasing land
on a flower, a scene associated in his mind with the image of a kneeling
nurserymaid named Grusha: "When he saw the girl scrubbing the floor he had
urinated ...
7
LIFE CYCLES IN ENG 1560-1720
Woolley warned her readers against the common but mistaken assumption that
children are 'easily pleased' and that the nurserymaid's was therefore 'an easy
kind of life, void of labour and painstaking'. A nurserymaid should be 'naturally ...
For it was stated, that the silk-manufacturer not only robbed the 'cook or
nurserymaid' (that is to say, all and every body who dealt with him) of the
difference of price, but that he also robbed of an equal amount the dealer or
dealers with whom ...
9
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
nuptial a, usu nuptials pi syn WEDDING, bridal, espousaKs), marriage, spousal
nurse n syn NURSEMAID, ||amah, ||ayah, nana, ||nanny, nurserymaid nurse vb I
to feed from the breast < decided to nurse her baby> syn breast-feed, nourish, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
10
The Skull of the World
"Tricking young Sukey Nurserymaid into leaving the bairns wi' her . . ." "And all
ken the Righ has long suspected her," another chimed in. "Why, ye were on
guard wi' me that day, Herman, when we heard the MacCuinn say he thought she
was ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NURSERYMAID»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
nurserymaid is used in the context of the following news items.
Ruth Sebag-Montefiore
... lettuce in France” and “never pick blackberries low down” — this last drummed into her by the nurserymaid, a farmer's daughter from Kent. «The Times, Jul 15»
Pirates of Penzance, King's Head - review
You might think that with a cast of pirates, policemen, a major-general and his daughters, plus nurserymaid, Pirates of Penzance would not be ... «Evening Standard, Sep 12»
THE LITTLE STRANGER By Sarah Waters
Smuggled inside by his mother, a former nurserymaid there, he wanders off to admire the lovely mansion and ends up taking a piece of it with ... «New York Times, May 09»
