1334 examples of orphan in sentences

Fighting between the blacks and whites ensued the following night when the Colored Orphan Asylum was attacked and a Negro church burned.

They burned the Colored Orphan Asylum of that city and hanged Negroes to lamp-posts.

Thirty-two, an orphan, unmarried, strong, fearless, ardent, but a deeply religious woman and a Catholic, Domini had passed through much mental agony.

C. [Footnote 1: Orphan, Act II.]

X. [Footnote 1: Otway's Orphan, Act IV.] * *

It is unfair that a civilian should be left with the hopeless choice of leaving a child in a house where it may at any moment be killed by a shell or taking it away with a considerable probability that it will be a homeless orphan.

He wrote, among other plays, two tragedies of wonderful pathetic power, "The Orphan" and "Venice Preserved."

He then saw himself a helpless orphan, the inferior of all with whom he came in contact, and a dependant upon the charity of others for his support.

Mr. Hornby has two nephews, the orphan sons of his two elder brothers, and I may tell you that since the decease of their parents he has acted the part of a father to both of them.

"There was a little orphan girl, whose father had gone to Ameriky and whose mother was dead, that was found one night, years before, in front of old Mrs. McGuire's door.

" Then there was a cry of grief sprung up from the heart of that orphan boy, that rang in those women's ears for long years after; it was the first outbreak of a loving childish heart pierced with life's bitterest griefa mother's loss.

Should any of your schoolmates ever make inquiries respecting your parents, all you have to answer is, they were from Georgia, and you are an orphan.

Those kind words won the orphan's heart, and from that day forth.

Amongst those seemingly the most impatient was Miss Ada Bell, who looked but little older than when she won the heart of the orphan Clarence, years before, by that kind kiss upon his childish brow.

He saw his patron dead, and that his patron's only remaining child, an elderly woman, now neither graceful nor beautiful, if she had ever been either the one or the other, had by this calamity become a homeless and penniless orphan.

The inmates of the boat were its master, Mr. Peggotty and his orphan nephew and niece, Ham and little Em'ly, which latter was a beautiful little girl, who wore a necklace of blue beads.

I had already broken out into a desolate cry, and felt an orphan in the wide world.

The result was a happy one, and it was not long before, by the kindness of Catherine, that the two orphan girls were situated pleasantly in life.

" From this room the orphan girl removed soon after their mother's deceased, and located among the poor of Marylebone street, where Mrs. Danvers accidently met with the two sisters, in one of her visits among the poor, and for whom she obtained the work which led to the unexpected meeting related in the previous story.

He now saw that the orphan birds were as well provided for as when their own mother was living.

Two little orphan boys, whose parents died in a foreign land, were put on board a vessel to be taken home to their relatives and friends.

So the two little orphan children lived all the time with Sally Migrundy.

Each year Sally Migrundy sends happy-hearted invitations floating down the stream and more orphan children come to live with her.

He gave alms to the poor, he cheered the heart of the widow, and lightened the destitution of the orphan.

It was painful to Henriette to witness the cringing servility of many who formerly treated her with contempt; but she had learned many useful lessons in poverty, that affluence never would have taught her, and she ever endeavored to throw the sweet garb of charity over the frailties of her fellow men, and especially did the destitute orphan ever find sympathy and assistance from her generous aid.

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