He that said, `Leave thy fatherless children to me,' winna forsake the motherless.
The silent stars looked down, pitying, helpless; she went back to her fatherless and her God.
Over the land when the tidings came, Even the babies lisped his name; And youthful eyes grew sad that day For the fatherless children far away.
Again the generations moved westward, in the march of civilization, keeping ever in the van, until in 1831, James Garfield was born, in a humble Ohio cabin where he was left fatherless in his infancy.
To say that the father, who had himself been left an orphan when he was an infant, left his son fatherless in infancy, is to say that the family was reduced to extreme poverty.
What will become of those poor, fatherless children?
The child of such a race, left fatherless in the wilderness, yet destined to such a glory, was committed by Providence to three great teachers, without either of whom he would not have become fitted for his distinguished career.
His dejection became more and more visible, as he stood and gazed on the fatherless babe, who, from constant familiarities with this elephant, seemed unintimidated, and played with its trunk.
And again the Psalmist: 'Extol Him that rideth upon the skies, whose name is the Lord, a Father of the fatherless and a Judge of the widows.
Can the fatherless brood be reared to maturity and again made to yield a fatherless generation?
It is, it would seem, only in exceptional cases and for limited periods that uni-sexual or fatherless reproduction can be advantageous to a species of plant or animal.
The fatherless and poor, And he who had no helper, welcomed me As one to right their wrongs, and pluck the spoil From the oppressor's teeth.
To him the fatherless and widow sought For aid and counsel.
And what right had you to cause this poor woman to be turned away with her fatherless children?
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
That it may please thee to defend, and provide for, the fatherless children, and widows, and all that are desolate and oppressed.
Good Dean Addison, Steele said many years after, loved him as one of his own sons; and in that home the fatherless boy saw how domestic love and purity lend a charm to manners that all the wit and fashion of the town can never give.
He will be a father to the fatherless and never leave nor forsake you.
And He, Jesus, will be your Father now even more than He was before: 'A father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows is God in his holy habitation.
And her own sorrow was often half forgotten in tender compassion for her fatherless children.
The Nona you knew died ten years ago, when insulted, and slandered, and despised I washed and ironed for money to clothe and feed my little fatherless one--my own beautiful little baby.
Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaks folly.
Before Mrs. Timorous was well out of the door, Mercy had already plucked off her gloves, and hung up her morning bonnet on a nail in the wall, so much did her heart heave to help the cumbered widow and her fatherless children.
The clergyman's voice ceased, and the fatherless lad stooped to get a last view of the flower-covered coffin.
It's hung he'll be for a opprissing the fatherless and the widow, and burn he will afther for a Protestant.
Almost with tears he pleaded for widows and fatherless children, until my servant's austere face became quite gentle, and she was able to hobble off to her bed feeling that all was well.
She is mainly dependent on her own labor for the means to support and educate her children, who were made fatherless by a rebel bullet at the siege of Petersburg.
It was not until 1875 that this law was so amended that the exemption extended to the widow andfatherless children.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fatherless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
