foundling

How To Use foundling In A Sentence

• èclaircissement, explanation, declaration. eilding, fuel. empressement, eagerness. en croupe, behind the saddle. enfant trouvè, foundling. es spuckt do it haunts there. et puis, and then. ex cathedra, from the chair; with authority. exorciso te, I exorcise thee. Glossary
• Their foundling was the rightful King of Birnam-and small wonder there were assassins seeking him. The Lark And The Wren
• But only this morning, 12 new foundlings were left at the orphanage door, just as funds are again quite low.
• The fate of the foundling still depends starkly on where it is born.
• One of the more overlooked lines in The Importance Of Being Earnest is Lady Bracknell's passing remark that she had no fortune whatever before she married; she may, in other words, have been herself guilty of exactly the arrivisme of which she implicitly accuses the handbag-foundling Jack Worthing.
• What has changed is that today such foundlings are not bound for a life in the workhouse or orphanage, but often face a more secure future than if they had stayed with their natural mothers.
• The Foundling Hospital was, apart from anything else, an exceptionally slick operation.
• Propositions whose quantity is thus left indefinite are technically called 'preindesignate,' their quantity not being stated or designated by any introductory expression; whilst propositions whose quantity is expressed, as _All foundling-hospitals have a high death-rate_, or _Some wine is made from grapes_, are said to be 'predesignate.' Logic Deductive and Inductive
• Like a mythological character transposed into a constellation, Hikari is transposed into the central fictional character in Oe's mature works, in which Hikari is the incarnation of Oe's profound affinity with the 'little boy lost,' the abandoned foundling, the outsider, and the anomaly. Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer
• The Magi, to their credit, told Astyages that his dream had been fulfilled, that Cyrus -- as we must now call the foundling prince -- had fulfilled it by becoming a king in play, and the boy is let to go back to his father and his hardy Persian life. Historical Lectures and Essays