How To Use Foundling In A Sentence
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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
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Their foundling was the rightful King of Birnam-and small wonder there were assassins seeking him.
The Lark And The Wren
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But only this morning, 12 new foundlings were left at the orphanage door, just as funds are again quite low.
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The fate of the foundling still depends starkly on where it is born.
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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.
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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.
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The Foundling Hospital was, apart from anything else, an exceptionally slick operation.
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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
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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
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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
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Perhaps you recall the scene in Three Men And A Baby where Tom Selleck, cradling their foundling in the crook of his arm, reads the child a story about a championship boxing match in that same tone of voice.
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He fostered many of the hospital foundlings and donated numerous paintings to the hospital's collection, establishing a permanent picture gallery.
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The nuns had a special social role in care for the sick and in rescuing foundlings.
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For it goes without saying that ‘every child, even a foundling, is reputed to be the son of a father’.
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Can I not leave you foundling youths to perform a simple deed?
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings
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Lastly, the deserving poor, including foundlings, orphans, the neglected infants of working mothers, adolescent girls on the streets, the sick, and the aged had to be brought within the pale of religious life.
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So they call the foundling "Mary Rose" and make a solemn oath to stick together and make a good life "for the roses".
Sweet Valley? Implicit Racism & Other thoughts
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But when his comrade, the true father, heard this tale from him he said to himself, "This matter must have been after such fashion," and he was certified that the foundling was his son, for that he had heard the history told by the mother of the babe with the same details essential and accidental.
Arabian nights. English
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Thus an elaborate plan was hatched, making it appear that the baby, born in 1922, was a foundling.
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Drawing on historical research and contemporary interviews, Adie sheds light on how the fate of a foundling differs starkly depending where someone was born.
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Everything becomes poor, dry, forsaken and neglected, as if most of the buildings and all of the people inside them were orphans, foundlings with no way to prove their origins or fight for their rights and heritage.
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To deceive the governors the women sometimes presented their own babies for inspection, so the hospital began branding the foundlings on the arm to ensure proper identification.
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But the junior magistrate, a kind-hearted man, troubled at what seemed to him a certain sardonical disdain, lurking beneath the foundling's humble mien, and in Christian sympathy more distressed at it on his account than on his own, dimly surmising what might be the final fate of such a cynic solitaire, nor perhaps uninfluenced by the general strangeness of surrounding things, this good magistrate had glanced sadly, sideways from the speaker, and thereupon his foreboding eye had started at the expression of the unchanging face of the Hour Una.
The Piazza Tales
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She had a friend who was abandoned at birth, a foundling, and she began to realise that abandoned children were in a far worse position than adopted ones.
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the foundling's putative father
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The hospital was the parent of all foundlings admitted until they reached the age of 21, overseers and other local officials having no power in the hospital.
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She had a friend who was abandoned at birth, a foundling, and she began to realise that abandoned children were in a far worse position than adopted ones.
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If I were forced to choose a bride, I would rather choose you, my dumb foundling, with those expressive eyes.
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Ginger Rogers plays a department store clerk who is mistakenly identified as the mother of an infant foundling.
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His parents are so dull and dusty, you wonder whether he was a foundling.
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The camp was built exclusively for summer use, with no heating, and the foundlings nearly froze as they camped out.
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Back in 1386, a swineherd by the name of John the Foundling was so upset by the number of travellers who froze to death on the pass between Stuben and St Anton that he built a hospice to shelter them.
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“Jexium Island” by Madeleine Grattan which is about a foundling, Serge Micar, whose sister by adoption is presumed dead from drowning in the Garonne River.
Booking Through Thursday: 24 January 08
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But this so-called foundling is a perfect monster of abomination, said Jehanne.
I. Charitable Souls. Book IV
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And with foundlings there was always a question mark.
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The majority of Santiago's foundlings were also very young infants: from the period 1875 to 1915, 72 percent of children were less than a month old.
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Eventually families disintegrated altogether, leaving thousands of homeless foundlings roaming the countryside in a desperate search for food and comfort.
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You see, sir, I'm a poor foundling from the Belfast Asylum, shoved out by the mother that bore me, upon the wide wurld, long before I knew that I was in it.
Roughing It in the Bush
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One of the most graphic indicators of the growth in poverty was the rise in the number of foundlings and abandoned children.
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Foundlings were adopted by neighbors, and accorded privileged status in the community, by way of compensating them for the loss of their parents.
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A foundling is a foundling, anywhere in Thorbardin.
The Gates of Thorbardin
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They concentrated on foundlings and orphans with nurseries to ensure a constant supply of children.
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Though called a foundling hospital, it is in reality a general receptacle for all children, who are received up to a certain age, without exception, it being left entirely to the option of the parent to state their names and condition, and to contribute or not, to the future support of the child.
A Journey in Russia in 1858
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Dutton's Epoch label seems to be turning into a home for British music's foundlings, but Cyril Scott is one of the more deserving of those waifs and strays.
