How To Use Foster-child In A Sentence

• Christianity in the social relations of master and slave is plain from the exceedingly small number of inscriptions containing the words servus (slave), or libertus (freedman), words which are constantly seen on pagan gravestones; the often recurring expression alumnus (foster-child) characterizes the new relation between the owner and the owned. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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• Orwell composed that novel of aching remembrance in torrid Morocco, so I make no apology for saying that McEwan put me in mind, twice, of John Keats as he gazed on the work of ancient Attica: “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness/Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.” Think of England
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• Jamieson suggests, from the Gaelic _dalt_, signifying _a foster-child_. The Elect Lady
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• Celtic custom of fosterage the infant is intrusted to Sir Ector as his dalt, or foster-child, and Uther falls in battle. Alfred Tennyson
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