nursing father

Historical Examples

• Flicoteaux has been nursing-father to many an illustrious name.

  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

  Honore de Balzac

• I have looked upon him ever since as a nursing-father to the Church.

  Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar

  George Smith

• Hopefully we borrowed a buggy, and ourselves drove him to the house of that old squatter, nursing-father that we imagined him.

  Thirty Years in Australia

  Ada Cambridge

• Now is the time when the male assumes his important duties of nursing-father.

  The Natural History of Cage Birds

  J. M. Bechstein