Ye shall swear all binding oaths but keep few when thou hast been one night Giuki's guest, thou shalt not remember Heimi's brave foster-daughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13] Reference
You have come to me as a guest, dear, but you have also come to me as my foster-daughter pro tem, and as such, claim my affectionate interest in your well-being. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
Her circle includes grandchildren, an old friend who lost her own home to foreclosure, a Chihuahua, and the one-year-old child of a woman Ms. Halterman's former foster-daughter met in jail. From Wordnik.com. [Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper?] Reference
The unnamed narrator's foster-daughter, Emily, takes her to a scene where the young ones are happily at home: here all the useless gadgets of civilization are brought to be stripped, recycled, or exchanged. From Wordnik.com. [In the Disintegrating City] Reference
She was fretful during the complicated process of her toilette and so hurt the feelings of her foster-daughter, that when Dan came to take her into the breakfast room, Nancy found an excuse for not accompanying them. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
Dearly shalt thou aby this day's work, foster-daughter!. From Wordnik.com. [The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III.] Reference
"I'm going to have a look at your foster-daughter, Ola.". From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Nils] Reference
She found her foster-daughter out as soon as she came back. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Tales from the Norse] Reference
It was but right that he should ask M. Destournier for his foster-daughter. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Quebec] Reference
"Thou dost great honour, earl, to my foster-daughter and my house," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Brighteyes] Reference
He has a foster-daughter, Jutta, of whom we have given an account elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country] Reference
Esthonians ascribe to him a foster-daughter, of whom the following story is related. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country] Reference
Thy errand here in the north is lightly guessed: it has to do with Hiordis, thy foster-daughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III.] Reference
Undine my foster-daughter is still only a child, although she is now nearly eighteen years of age. From Wordnik.com. [Undine] Reference
Then Gunnar, by force and craft, carried away my foster-daughter, Hiordis; but thou, Sigurd, didst take. From Wordnik.com. [The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III.] Reference
The nurse never left her foster-daughter; this is why the nurse is the confidante in most of their plays. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
Rather than give up his share of the loot, he chose to risk the great danger to his little foster-daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Bloom of Cactus] Reference
They appeared to feel, at the moment of separation, all that they were losing in their affectionate foster-daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Undine] Reference
Paulina's foster-daughter was never forgotten, and she kept a kindly place for it in her heart and in her household. From Wordnik.com. [The Emperor — Complete] Reference
When the Queen saw this, as she sat at a window in the palace, she tapped on the pane for her foster-daughter to come up. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Tales from the Norse] Reference
Orm was a good husbandman, and a great friend of Thorbiorn, and Gudrid lived with him for a long time as a foster-daughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503] Reference
But one crisp morning Keeper Quinn, to whom every doe in his charge is like a foster-daughter, was horrified at finding blood on the absurd little antlers of the Osceola pet. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
I learned, on making inquiry of a person near me, that the name of the young lady was Bertalda, and that she was a foster-daughter of one of the powerful dukes of this country. From Wordnik.com. [Undine] Reference
A hurried breakfast had left her foster-daughter asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead] Reference
"The daughter was charming and talented, and Chinthliss had no qualms with accepting her as a foster-daughter, even though Charcoal had gone beyond being his rival and had become his most vicious enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Chrome Borne]
Albia, our foster-daughter, wanted a jaunt. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
"Before you kneels the foster-daughter of the headsman's wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Wrath] Reference
"I asked my neighbor, and learned from him, that the name of the fair lady was Bertalda, and that she was the foster-daughter of one of the powerful dukes living in the country. From Wordnik.com. [Undine] Reference
HIORDIS, his foster-daughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III.] Reference
My foster-daughter beware of blaming. From Wordnik.com. [Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance] Reference
Elspeth, her foster-daughter, and her son Edward. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
BLANKA His foster-daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans] Reference
Jutta, foster-daughter of Vanemuine, and Queen of the Birds, i. xxviii. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country] Reference
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