29 adjectives to describe waifs

"You are always busy," he said with a smile, as he lifted the garment she was making for the little waif who was to have her first taste of heaven at 'The Willows.'

She looked like a dainty, ethereal little princess instead of the ragged little waif that had been rescued from the gipsy camp.

Fernando's adventures, with those of Morgianna, the mysterious waif of the sea, form the romance of this story.

" Again Landor's eyes made the circle, halted at the intrepid brown waif who, that first word of greeting spoken, had silently stared him back.

It was he who had laid his hand on my head, when a forlorn little waif at the Fort, tenderly saying, "Poor little girl, I wish I could give back what you have lost!" To me, Captain Sutter had long been the embodiment of all that was good and grand; and now I longed to touch his hand and whisper to him gratitude too sacred for strangers' ears.

Throughout it all, from the days when as a thirteen-year-old, homeless, friendless waif.

This hapless waif of good fortune had thrown herself upon his protection and had paid him the highest compliment that a woman could pay a mana faith in him that was in itself an inspiration.

Surely, I thought, they were not going to tar and feather these harmless, good-for-nothing waifs of the frontier; and even as I thought it, I saw the glimmering of the fire they were kindling under the tar-kettle.

I was ever to be a lonely-hearted waif from end to end of the world of lovean alien among my own kin.

All credit is due Mr. and Mrs. Breen for keeping the nine helpless waifs left with them at Starved Camp alive until food was brought them by members of the Third Relief Party.

Throughout it all, from the days when as a thirteen-year-old, homeless, friendless waif.

Here and there, slowly revealing themselves through the diminishing darkness, like horrible waifs left uncovered by a falling river, appeared the bodies of four Apaches, naked to the breechcloth and painted black, all quiet except one which twitched convulsively.

"And if I ever see you around this innocent waif again, I will ...

" Again Landor's eyes made the circle, halted at the intrepid brown waif who, that first word of greeting spoken, had silently stared him back.

God knows, at that moment I pitied the poor dumb waif, alone in all the whole round earth with me.

A poor, storm-beaten, lonely waif, Lured southward from a colder clime By hope and that unfailing faith That health will come again in time!

My boys are under orders to let the lovely little waif alone.

This was the crowning misfortune (for I could have endured the absence of the elder lady with commendable fortitude), and since I could not immediately return to the Temple it left me a mere waif and stray for the time being.

There was a merry little waif from the circus who loved to come and sit with Hubert.

The Sister led the way into the other roomthe first orphan asylum in the wildernessand Ruth smiled and talked to the desolate little waifs of humanity as brightly as she could with dim eyes and quivering lips.

For twenty minutes or more odd waifs and strays of humanity crawled in through the trap-door, obtained their message of good or ill, and departed into the shadows as silently as they had come.

How on earth did this picturesque waif from the Quartier Latin come to stray so far away from the Boul' Miche!

Disgusted with her selfishness, I vouchsafed her no further notice at the time, and her crooning went on during the whole period of the bitter death-struggle of that poor sufferer, whose name I never knew, but whose little, deformed waif, the orphan of the raft, remained my heritage.

Here the children could play apart from the rough waifs that thronged the street.

The solitary waif had a rider, but he was not in the saddle.

29 adjectives to describe  waifs