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How To Use fatherless In A Sentence

• But in order to give a religious fenftion to a fecial virtue, the duty of vifiting the fatherless and widow in their afHi£tion is in - feparably attached to the difficult and felf-denying injiinftion of keep - ing Ourfelves unfpotted from the woilfiU This adjunct is the more needful, as many are apt to make a kind of moral commutation, and. to allow themfelvcs fo much pleafure in exchange for fo much charity. Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society
• 10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• Some of her classmates were also fatherless, because of the war. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
• The precipitous rise in fatherless households has finally begun to level off.
• David is the fatherless image of adolescent youth, rake-thin, spotty and with an ill-defined sense-of-being, provided by his uncle's friends.
• At thirty-eight, she was left with six fatherless children.
• Studies of young criminals have found that more than 70% of all juveniles in state reform institutions come from fatherless homes.
• What part does fatherlessness play in life chances, if this is more common among certain ethnicities? Times, Sunday Times
• Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
• Were both Amy and Isabelle particularly vulnerable because they lived in fatherless homes? Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout: Questions