Njal had taken as his foster-child, Thord, the son of Kari.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

Protestantism from the foster-child of Rome, the PROTEGEE of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

When the day was over, Alpheus called to him his foster-child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference

The foster-child remained behind to share the hut of the political exile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Mrs. Trent hastily heated some milk, and with a small spoon she fed the foster-child.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Long Years and Other Stories] Reference

Mary was introduced to her as her future foster-child by the priests and by her parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference

'Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time -'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Space Merchants]

To quote is to point elsewhere and otherwiseto a foster-child incapable of naming itself or its origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering to Die] Reference

She stretched out her arms toward the queen; she called with tender words for her foster-child, her Louisa!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference

Asleifarson's foster-child, and two daughters, Helena and Margret, of whom we hear nothing save their names.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference

A rustle of whispers roused him, and he raised his silvered head to behold the loveliness of his stolen foster-child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

South Side, where she lived in retirement with a little foster-child — a chestnut-haired girl taken from the Western.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference

"You bring to my mind," she answered, the remembrance of my lost foster-child, who, if he lives, is just about your age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindoo Tales Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes] Reference

She was the daughter of the celestial nymph Menaka by the celebrated sage Viswamitra and foster-child of the hermit Kanwa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference

Athelstan's anger against his royal foster-child was soon forgotten, and ere long he loved him better than any of his own kin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

There were but three people left in the world that she could love: her foster-child, Frank Gresham — Mary Thorne, and the doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Thorne] Reference

He was not rewarded as he should have been for all his sacrifices -- for all the love he had expended upon his grateful foster-child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference

Then Hardgrep, expanding her limbs and swelling to a mighty bigness, gripped the hand fast and held it to her foster-child to hew off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

Thorgerda, "Long have I loved my brother Thrain much, and now I will shew it, for I will ask Hauskuld Thrain's son to be my foster-child.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

And what will happen then, asks my kind foster-child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said] Reference

Her foster-child seeks to her, stately where she stands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Nations] Reference

That meanest thou not; bethink thee she is thy foster-child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III.] Reference

Hakon Fairhair's last son, the little foster-child of Athelstan in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Kings of Norway] Reference

Her visits to her foster-child are discouraged by a cold reception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emile] Reference

Ericthonius was fabled to be the son, or foster-child, of Athene, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference

'And Njal and his sons will be burnt, and Bergthora, my foster-child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Romance Book] Reference

To please Alciphron, your foster-child, you would make us all beggars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Then in those marvellous Middle Ages, wherein Art, foster-child of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [En Route] Reference

Aunt Kate had been kind, kind as she always was to the adored foster-child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beloved Woman] Reference

Bacchus was the foster-child of Ino, who was the sister of his mother Semele.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference

The fisherman, his wife and their foster-child lived very quietly on this pleasant spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Undine] Reference

It seemed as if they had a presentiment of all they were now losing in their foster-child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Undine] Reference

The government of the United States at present is a foster-child of the special interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People] Reference

"This is King Harald's son, whom a serving-maid bore to him, and whom he now gives thee as foster-child!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Kings of Norway] Reference

"foster-child?" he thanked you for such a foster-child; he was still a little too good to look after such a heap of rubbish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dame Care] Reference

It is our foster-child, Undine, and she will not wean herself from this childishness, although she has already entered her eighteenth year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Undine] Reference