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Perhaps some of them thought they befriended me for charity's sake, because I was a starved waif from the slums. From Wordnik.com. [The Promised Land] Reference
If a waif is a lost wanderer, then little Poosk was a decided waif for he had gone very much astray indeed in the North American backwoods. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories] Reference
Let's say you find a "waif" on the street and take it home. From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
Yet most of the time, the "waif" of journalism is a too-thin woman. From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
But when was the last time you saw "waif" used to mean a found object?. From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
"Perhaps you have heard something about me -- that -- that I am a kind of waif?". From Wordnik.com. [Katherine's Sheaves] Reference
Kate Moss, who heralded the "waif" look, is looking a little curvier these days. From Wordnik.com. [ABC News: ABCNews] Reference
However, I succeeded in getting the little waif in my keeping. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
Was this little alien waif to be made a catspaw for her revenge?. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
By this time, the waif from the wreck was towing safely alongside the. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
"My dear child," said Mrs. Curtis, gently drawing the waif to her side. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
Henry M. Stanley was a poorhouse waif whose real name was John Rowlands. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
I think I can hear her across the centuries talking to this little waif. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
I got a picture of a nubile waif, too freakish to fit where she'd been raised. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
By then, the look that had been christened waif or grunge was moving mainstream. From Wordnik.com. [Corinne Day: Pioneer of a new kind of beauty] Reference
It was some waif that had been drifting about till it was thus cast at his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
I groped in my pocket for a florin, and prepared to issue a stern lecture to the waif. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of The Limehouse Golem] Reference
After May turned her into a tough rich-girl waif with a tragic past, Pfeiffer signed on. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Cries Wolf] Reference
A waif of a kid brought a Barranquilla newspaper to our room and Daddy gave him a dollar. From Wordnik.com. [Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)] Reference
"Yes; mine is a hard lot; I am a waif; I am nothing; I am all outcast; a thing, and yet --". From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
The youths befriend a city waif, who in turn makes a revelation which clears up the mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference
It was all so strange to this poor London waif, this cleanly, peaceful home, this simple worship. From Wordnik.com. [Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets] Reference
Nicks's gypsy-waif, victim-of-love image, once the bedrock of the band's appeal, was out of touch. From Wordnik.com. [The Choice Of A New Generation] Reference
It seemed ridiculous to think that girl could be Maggie, "the waif," she had seen on Bliss Island. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
It was quite true that the hermit did not wholly fit the character he assumed as a longshore waif. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
Geoff's Billie, a waif raised by the greatest-hearted man that ever lived, but I've got some pride myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
In a few days Shiloh was up, but the mere shadow of a little waif, following the old man around the place. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
At 6 years old, she was a waif of a child dressed in hand-me-downs, and she couldn't wait to get away from me. From Wordnik.com. [Teaching A Child, Changing A Life] Reference
Evidently those beautiful verses had struck a chord hitherto mute in the heart of the poor untaught London waif. From Wordnik.com. [Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets] Reference
She felt that this girl must really have some connection with Maggie at the mill, she looked so much like the waif. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
A railroader who was standing by remarked that the piteous appearance of the little waif brought tears to his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
With their waif-white skin against chiaroscuro shadows, the children look Victorian-but their eyes say something else. From Wordnik.com. [All In The Family] Reference
I guess I just don't find uninteresting interesting anymore -- you're like a waif supermodel without the father issues. From Wordnik.com. [Craig Bierko: Tumblr, I Think We Need To Talk] Reference
A desert waif out of luck and ready cash waylaid the paymaster of Calico mines and relieved him of the money intended for the miners. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Its dedication is as follows: 'To one who, though absent, is ever present, this little waif is tenderly and affectionately dedicated.'. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Freckles is a nameless waif when the tale opens, but the way in which he takes hold of life; the nature friendships he forms in the great. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
I would be greeted with that reserved kindness which good stranger hearts extend to any homeless waif -- and that, would be worse than all!. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
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