sick-nurse

Vaux, in his character of sick-nurse, compelled his royal master to replace himself in the couch, and covered his sinewy arm, neck, and shoulders with the care which a mother bestows upon an impatient child.

The Talisman 2008

Simson, the first in the race, carried as a prize the situation of sick-nurse beside the delicate patient; that Peg Thomson was permitted the privilege of recommending her good-daughter, Bet Jamieson, to be wet-nurse; and an oe, or grandchild, of Luckie Jaup was hired to assist in the increased drudgery of the family; the Doctor thus, like a practised minister, dividing among his trusty adherents such good things as fortune placed at his disposal.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

THE health of Lucy Ashton soon required the assistance of a person more skilful in the office of a sick-nurse than the female domestics of the family.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

Canalis may be distinguished from Lamartine, chief of the angelic school, by a wheedling tone like that of a sick-nurse, a treacherous sweetness, and a delightful correctness of diction.

Modeste Mignon 2007

Himself, he was tired playing sick-nurse and was off down the Forty Foot.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

Himself, he was tired playing sick-nurse and was off down the Forty Foot.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

Isabelle, who saw him only from a distance and who had kept ever-present the picture of their youth, would become a sick-nurse at the same time as she became his wife, and she would know only the infirmities of a worn-out body.

Maigret in Society Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1962

He had been for seventeen years resident in different cloisters of his order, as sick-nurse, alms gatherer, student, and physician, and knew the conventual life out and out.

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson

In each case it must be decided whether it is best for the child to be nursed by his mother and his own nurse, or by a sick-nurse.

The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

Sometimes days may elapse before the sick-nurse who is installed to take the place of the child's usual attendant is able to approach the cot or do any service to the child without provoking a paroxysm of screaming.

The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron