fosterer

You'll see the mother goddess as a fosterer of children, but they're not necessarily her children.

Another is "snowshoe deity's fosterer", or the father of the goddess who goes about on skis.

"Why, my fosterer," cried Leif, "have you come so late?

Once the child has grown to show distinct personality and talents, they are matched with a Fosterer (foster parent) who suits the child's temperament.

He was a king who loved peace, an assiduous manager of public affairs, and above all a fosterer of the Christian religion."

Piero was a fosterer of discord.

The power that the man is fostering is primarily represented in the woman more than in himself He is the fosterer.

Jacksonian fosterer?

This bird is an uncritical fosterer; it tolerates in its nest eggs that do not resemble its own.

Then they fared to hunt for him, and parted themselves into companies, and Thorkell fosterer went along the sea-shore to search.

Piotr gave Bothari a one-day leave to personally retrieve his child and her fosterer and escort them home.

Rognvald escaped the house, but was tracked down, given away by the barking of his lap dog, and killed by Thorkell the Fosterer.

The cold voice of Othin, fosterer of battle, betrayer of warriors, the god who took the sacrifices offered to Dead Man's Strand.

They put him to death at once among the rocks, and it is the story of some men that Thorkell fosterer slew him, because there were no other men who would do it."

Then Karl's nephew Mutatan or Muddan, appointed to rule Caithness for him, was killed at Thurso by Thorkel the Fosterer.

It also presents Lesnewski as the iconoclast charmer Kosinski was by reputation - hedonist, seducer of women, encourager of sycophants, dismisser of critics, clever fosterer of his own celebrity.

Thorkel, in danger of his life, fled to Thorfinn's court in Caithness, and became his foster-father, from which the other name by which he is known, Thorkel the Fosterer.

If you can find a fosterer who is happy to look after the cats with a guarantee that they will return them to you, and who will even sign a form promising to do this, it could be the answer.

By degrees the sun, which with slant beams had before yielded the more extended reign to night, lengthened his diurnal journey, and mounted his highest throne, at once the fosterer of earth's new beauty, and her lover.

Menolly's attitude was presumptuous, uncooperative, unfriendly and discourteous, and Dunca was not having a tunnel-snake in her cot where the girls were as friendly and as considerate of one another as any fosterer could wish.

Thorfinn appointed Thorkel the Fosterer as his tax-gatherer in the islands, but Einar had not forgotten their earlier dispute and Thorkel left the islands in fear of his life, returning to Caithness.

Then she turned to Richard, and said: "O fosterer of my love, knowest thou not that as now he speaketh as a Friend of the Well, and wotteth more of far-off tidings than even this wise man of many years?"

Helena's keen wish to remain was granted through influence of Queen Elizabeth, who reportedly was attached to the Parr family, the Marquess' sister Catherine Parr, last Queen-Consort of Henry VIII, having been Elizabeth's stepmother and fosterer in the queen's youth.