55 Verbs to Use for the Word orphaning

Though left a young orphan, without patrimony, and obliged to struggle with early disadvantages, he raised himself by meritorious exertion to the head of a profession in which opulence is generally the just attendant on knowledge and reputation.

The blacksmith had six motherless children of his own; but he set out for the West, and brought the orphans home with him.

" Infinitely better than adopting the orphans would be to save the fathers from death.

A little after daybreak, Kookoo from his window saw the orphan, pausing on the corner.

I may be said to have been born an orphan.

The ceremony was soon over, and Emily was clasped in Mrs. Ellis's arms, who called her "daughter," and kissed her cheek with such warm affection that she no longer felt herself an orphan, and paid back with tears and embraces the endearments that were lavished upon her by her new relatives.

But Major Bugbee, to whom the cobbler's wife had been remotely akin, and who was at that time first selectman of the town, took the orphans with him to his house, where they tarried till he found good places for them.

O! did Irene shine the queen of Turkey, No more should Greece lament those pray'rs rejected; Again, should golden splendour grace her cities, Again, her prostrate palaces should rise, Again, her temples sound with holy musick: No more should danger fright, or want distress The smiling widows, and protected orphans.

" You know the nights in the South Sea Islands are not cold and damp like ours, but as the teacher thought a heavy rain would fall in the night, he roused the orphans, and led the three little boys into the large porch of the house where they might rest in safety.

the Madame Guirlande I told you of, who befriended the poor orphans when they had no other friend.

"I married an orphan," she said.

I have educated two or three orphans, and I help every month several widows and one or two helpless people who suffered through him.

Walt Coburn (A); 15Apr63; R313858. Badlands orphan.

So long as I live I shall not forget your goodness and kindness to me; you did not forget the orphan in a strange land.

Others fancied he was desirous of getting the orphan off his hands, in the easiest possible way, that he might make a bequest of his whole estate to the Theological Institution that had been coquetting with him now, for several years, through its recognised agents, and to which he had already made the liberal donation of one hundred dollars.

Whatever might have been the violence of her temper, or the improprieties of her after-life, the fond and mournful caresses with which she used to hang over her lame and helpless orphan, must have greatly contributed to the formation of that morbid sensibility which became the chief characteristic of his life.

These associations, animated by Christian charity, took upon them to invoke the blessings of heaven on all members of the fraternity, and to assist those who were either laid by through sickness or want of work, and to take care of the widows and to help the orphans of the less prosperous craftsmen.

"Mind you," he went on, "I'm not includin' any orphan.

On the left side of the dying youth stood Arthur Myrvin, who, from the moment of his arrival at Oakwood, had never once left Herbert's couch, night and day he remained beside him; and near Arthur, but yet closer to her cousin, knelt the orphan, her eyes tearless indeed, but her whole countenance so haggard and wan, that had not all been engrossed in individual suffering, it could not have passed unobserved.

There lay the little orphan with the golden hair; her eyes were closed and a death-like hue had overspread her beautiful features.

The tzarina almost overwhelmed the orphan before she dismissed her.

Now," with continued candour, "I ain't what you might call a model Christian; but likewise you don't reckon me the sort that would help you pick up orphans just for the fun of handin' 'em over to you to starve.

She did her work with great neatness and dispatch, and was supplied with all she could possibly do, so that she remunerated the kind hearted woman who had boarded her through her apprenticeship, and been very attentive to her in many ways, for she truly pitied the poor orphan.

It was now a question with me, how to rear the three interesting orphans; we thought a slut from some of the villages would prove the best wet nurse, and tried accordingly to get one, but could not.

Thus, that primitive innocence being vanished, the oppression daily prevailing, there was a necessity to oppose the torrent of violence; for which reason the order of knighthood errant was instituted, to defend the honour of virgins, protect widows, relieve orphans, and assist all that are distressed.

55 Verbs to Use for the Word  orphaning