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Meanings of old nursery in English

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Usage of old nursery in English
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Aunt Charlotte looked out through the bars of the old nursery window.
Mary Olivier: a Life
2
Now I come to think of it, that is our old nursery.
'Me and Nobbles'
3
The rabbit and the child are associated in the old nursery-rhyme:-
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought / Studies of the Activit...
4
She laughed, and gave them a group of old nursery rhymes.
Mistress Anne
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It was the old nursery rhyme that she remembered from her childhood days.
And Then There Were None
6
He was trying to tease her with that old nursery name!
The Poor Little Rich Girl
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She blamed herself bitterly that she had decreed to sleep in her old nursery.
The Grey Room
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Since his decline upon this more commodious apartment, the old nursery had stood vacant.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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She longed, she said, to go over the garrets and rummage her old nursery.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
10
There was something on the carpet, just outside the old nursery door, Naomi's door.
Naomi’s Room
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She was insistent on getting away from the old nursery.
The hellfire club
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O-liver weighing the hollowness of it all had thought whimsically of an old nursery rime:
The Gay Cockade
13
The glazed yellow walls of the old nursery gave out a strong light and heat.
Mary Olivier: a Life
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Ironical Bakkus began to hum the old nursery song:
The Mountebank
15
She was back again in the old nursery with the fair-haired child playing about her knees.
Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)
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The princess found herself in her old nursery.
A Double Story
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