foundling in English

noun
1
an infant that has been abandoned by its parents and is discovered and cared for by others.
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.
synonyms:abandoned infantwaifstrayorphanoutcast
noun

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1. Our foundling is fast becoming a woman.

2. She began as a helpless foundling, unclean and uncared for.

3. The foundling, of course, had to be reared a nobleman.

4. When she was building her first foundling asylum , what was he doing?

5. James Michener began life as a foundling and started with absolutely nothing.

6. Where Walcott is rustic and galloping, the Everton-era Rooney was squarely in English football's urban foundling tradition.

7. He is a foundling, and has grown up in a school for homeless boy.

8. If Britomart wants the foundry in the family, she should find a foundling to marry Barbara.

9. Every Sunday, my best friend Marilyn and I went to the foundling home behind the hospital.

10. Gewangshi, the wife of Geyunian's second son had contribute 2000Liang silver to purchase the land and houses as the cost of foundling.

11. She could see that Mrs Morey was besotted with the Foundling child, and she began to feel sorry for her.

12. And Sarah believed he could bend the rules of the Foundling Hospital so that she could have the child with her always.

13. New York Foundling, an agency in New York, runs a crisis centre, where parents can leave their children for up to three weeks.

14. He was a priest and later (170 music director at a school for foundling girls, the Seminario dell'Ospitale della Pieta.

15. If I were forced to choose a bride, I would rather choose you, my dumb foundling, with those expressive eyes.

16. This thesis makes a tentative study of Ch'ien Chung-shu's critical assimilation of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding.

17. Proper existence is a natural competition rule, disobeying the business enterprise of this rule with personal foundling that will become ages.

18. Her masterpiece, Wuthering Heights, is the wild, passionate story of the intense, almost demonic, love between Catherine Earnshaw and the Gypsy foundling Heathcliff.

19. I suppose the registrar didn't think it would be right to ask a properly brought-up girl to room with a foundling.

20. Unlike Tom, who was a foundling, Jia Baoyu in the Chinese novel was the pampered son of a wealthy , influential, aristocratic family .

21. On top of this I was accused of employing toothless and incompetent old relatives to prepare the food for the foundling hospital when I was warden .

22. 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292, book IV: King Pyrrhus was at dinner at an ale-house Bordering on the theatre, when he

23. Simple past tense of Chide 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292: Jones Chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.··past participle of Chide

24. 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: The landlady […] was not without some concern for the confinement of poor Sophia, of whose great sweetness of temper and Affability the maid of the house had made so favourable a report, which was confirmed by all the squire

25. 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling: It is no wonder that in an age when this kind of merit is so little in fashion, and so slenderly provided for, persons possessed of it should very eagerly flock to a place where they were sure of being received with great Complaisance

26. And in only their second settlement, the Jong-PAC marine forces came into conflict with an alien race, the Acarines, who promptly attacked and obliterated the foundling Jong-PAC colony and advanced toward the Near-Earth Zone, where they have begun conducting military operations against the Earth powers.