well-nursed
- a word derived from nurse.
Example Sentences
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The absence of acres was of no great consequence, for through his mother, the daughter of a banker in Vienna, he came into a well-nursed fortune.
From Villa Rubein, and other stories by Galsworthy, John
All the campaigns against Turkey prove this, from Potemkin’s time to the last Eastern war in 1878, entered upon with every advantage of a well-nursed prestige and a carefully fostered fanaticism.
From Notes on Life and Letters by Conrad, Joseph
