But the fiercest animals have the fewest numbers in their litters, as lions, tigers, &c." To this practical orphanhood, and inheritance of feverish passion, there was added another, and to him a heavy and life-long burden.

Statira never forgot Major Bugbee's kindness to her in her lonely orphanhood.

But as the orphanhood and desolation of my own family depresses my mind, so both the good fortune and valour of our nation forbid me to despair of the safety of the state.

The tender, ennobling influences which had surrounded me had been more impressive than any I had experienced during orphanhood, and I dreaded what the noisy world might again have in store for me.

the girl said, when the message was delivered, and she put her beast in motion, chattering gayly to Miss Gerald in the bond of their common orphanhood.

She hid her face in her hands and terror staunched the tears that had flown afresh at the thought of orphanhood.

It seemed as if this image symbolized for him his tragic fate, his noble origin, his early orphanhood, his poverty, his cares, the injustice of men, his solitary state in the world, and perhaps too some presentiment of his future sufferings.