foundling

How To Use foundling In A Sentence

• “But this so-called foundling is a perfect monster of abomination, ” said Jehanne. I. Charitable Souls. Book IV
• She had a friend who was abandoned at birth, a foundling, and she began to realise that abandoned children were in a far worse position than adopted ones.
• the foundling's putative father
• 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.
• She had a friend who was abandoned at birth, a foundling, and she began to realise that abandoned children were in a far worse position than adopted ones.
• If I were forced to choose a bride, I would rather choose you, my dumb foundling, with those expressive eyes.
• Ginger Rogers plays a department store clerk who is mistakenly identified as the mother of an infant foundling.
• His parents are so dull and dusty, you wonder whether he was a foundling.
• The camp was built exclusively for summer use, with no heating, and the foundlings nearly froze as they camped out.
• Back in 1386, a swineherd by the name of John the Foundling was so upset by the number of travellers who froze to death on the pass between Stuben and St Anton that he built a hospice to shelter them.