A foundling is a foundling, anywhere in Thorbardin. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Thorbardin]
But this so-called foundling is a perfect monster of abomination, said Jehanne. From Wordnik.com. [I. Charitable Souls. Book IV] Reference
Their foundling was the rightful King of Birnam-and small wonder there were assassins seeking him. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
So they call the foundling "Mary Rose" and make a solemn oath to stick together and make a good life "for the roses". From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Valley? Implicit Racism & Other thoughts] Reference
Cardinal Bonpre and his "foundling" Manuel from Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Christian] Reference
And lifting the heavy velvet portiere at the door, he held it back for his "foundling" to pass, -- and then slowly followed. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Christian] Reference
Jim in the lead, with the grave little foundling on his arm. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
Polybus, the Corinthian king, but a foundling adopted by his queen. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
I went to the orphan asylum, which is also the foundling hospital. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
Jim was afraid the motionless little foundling was dying in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
Of 62,000 children brought into the Paris foundling hospitals, 52,500 died. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The sick little foundling was feebly calling in his baby way for "Bruvver Jim.". From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
The mother died, the daughter lived -- became a foundling, then a slave, Saronia!. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
I am a foundling: eighteen years since, in a forest at the foot of the Cevennes. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
Jim was still patting the timid little foundling on the back with a comforting hand. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
Jim looked long at his tiny foundling dressed in the nightie that came below his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
Black-throated Green-backed Warbler devoting itself to this dusky, overgrown foundling. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
He held his little foundling by the hand and piled up a barrier of blankets before them. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
Then he went to the berth to awaken the tiny foundling and give him a supper of bread and milk. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
It was said and believed that he was a foundling -- a Gipsy's son, a wandering beggar, a tinker. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
We are not, then, it seems, the only foundling of Columbus, as we are so apt to take for granted. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
For might not the kitten, he thought, be more than Peggy's foundling be the other Thing disguised?. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
But she could not get the thief, nor get back her adopted son, the little smooth-skinned foundling. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
The husband and wife have to leave the room a moment; when they return the foundling has disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
I am too lowly born to be worthy of such a wife; I am a mere foundling, living on thy father's bounty. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
You would then have had no better chance than that of any foundling in a public charitable institution. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
The tiny mite of a foundling was not so well as when his friends had left him on the previous afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
There is first the case of the child born out of wedlock, often a foundling with parentage unacknowledged. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
Take the foundling hospitals as a guide to some approximate estimate of the amount of infanticide in France. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
A foundling raised in a foster home, Michener never knew his exact birthdate, but he was about 90 when he died. From Wordnik.com. [An Epic Writer, An Epic Life] Reference
It is, as its name signifies, an institution with a benevolent purpose, an orphan asylum and foundling hospital in one. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
His wife had died at an early period, and as she left no issue, he adopted a son and a daughter from a foundling asylum. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
"I wouldn't leave him raise a baby rattlesnake of mine," said Field, whose watch had not been accepted by the foundling. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
Here lived Santiago and Catalina, the latter a foundling whom Santiago's parents had found at their door one winter morning. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Athene, moved with compassion, carried him to Alcmene, and entreated her kind offices on behalf of the poor little foundling. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
The hero of the tale is a foundling, discovered in the forest by an old woman, "so small that she easily hides it in her mitten.". From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
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