nursing father
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Historical Examples of nursing father
Flicoteaux has been nursing-father to many an illustrious name.
A Distinguished Provincial at ParisHonore de Balzac
I have looked upon him ever since as a nursing-father to the Church.
Henry Martyn Saint and ScholarGeorge 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 AustraliaAda Cambridge
Now is the time when the male assumes his important duties of nursing-father.
The Natural History of Cage BirdsJ. M. Bechstein