Indeed, we were much more so, for while I miserably coveted that thirty-eight pound upper floor of his near the Foundling Hospital, my faith in myself and my ambition would have helped me over that.
As Miss Causton had once said, one must be clean, and Archie, whose bath I could now have passed my days in, was seldom to be found in his rooms near the Foundling Hospital now.
II It was about this time that Archie Merridew's light was once more beginning to show regularly, evening after evening, over the leads of his top floor near the Foundling Hospital.
I do not revisit that house near the Foundling Hospital--yet I do write this shorthand carefully locking my door before I begin and committing it to the most private recess of my cabinet as I complete each instalment.
I will begin the third at the moment when I pushed gently at the gate over the whitewashed area near the Foundling Hospital.
The Foundling Hospital[75] is situated in the middle of the city, at the conflux of the Yausa and the Moscua.
He learns, moreover, that he is not the son of Polybus, the Corinthian king, but a foundling adopted by his queen.
Under some of the later Pagan emperors foundling hospitals and schools were established in separate provinces for orphans and poor children.
On one side of the room sat the two governors of the Foundling Hospital, on the other was seated Mr Cophagus in his Quaker's dress; the empty chair next to him had been occupied by Mr Masterton.
Mr Phineas Cophagus might have been about forty-five years of age when I first had the honour of an introduction to him in the receiving room of the Foundling Hospital.
And pray, Mr Newland, which do you think is more likely to tend to the discovery, a general knowledge that you are a foundling in search of your parents, or your present method, of taxing everybody upon suspicion.
He told me he would leave his address for me at the Foundling Hospital, and shaking me heartily by the hand, we parted.
My interview with Mr Masterton, and subsequent events, had made me forget to call on the governors of the Foundling Hospital, to ascertain whether there had been any inquiries after me.
On our arrival, we were ushered into a room on the ground floor, where we found Mr Cophagus and two of the governors of the Foundling Hospital.
A hospital was established for abandoned foundling children in 1739 so they wouldn't die, as they usually did, in the care of parishes or workhouses or be exposed in the streets or left on door steps of the wealthy.
Then you do not think of putting her in a foundlinghospital or a workhouse, nephew, as you proposed last night?
The maids, however, made a thorough job of it, and scoured the foundling from head to foot.
The Foundling Asylum was a pride and pleasure to Handel in his declining years.
The orphan department and thefoundling hospital, are under the special care of the sisters of charity.
There is, perhaps, no more strange sight in all Paris, than the assemblage of babies in the apartments of the Foundling Hospital.
The palace of the Tuileries was enlarged, the Hotel des Invalides, a foundling hospital, and several bridges were built.
There are at least one hundred and fifty foundlinghospitals in France, and Paris has a celebrated one in the Rue d'Enfer.
In England where a foundling hospital could not be endured for a moment, the crime of infanticide is increasing every year, and the number of murdered children is already an army of martyrs.
The first months of his life were passed in a foundling asylum; indeed, his real name, Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdés, was in honor of its founder.
At his birth she abandoned him to a foundling asylum, and perhaps never saw him again, although it is known that she outlived her son.
But this explanation of Scyld Scefing as a human foundling does not seem to me to be borne out by the text of Beowulf.
She was brought here from the Foundling Asylum when she was a baby, in almost a dying condition.
In a corner of the big vaulted room the little foundling was washing the dishes, heaping the scraps in a bowl for herself and the fowls.
Can it be your excellency has in mind the foundling boy Carlo Gamba?
She returned to London, was eventually confined, and placed her child in the Foundling Institution; then took a situation not far off and visited the child once a week till it died.
And as soon as Mathieu had related that he had taken the infant to the Foundling Hospital so as to be certain that it was deposited there, he warmly pressed his hand.
Or else, if you have made up your mind to abandon it altogether, she will kindly take it to the Foundling Hospital at once.
She well remembered Norine's child, although in her time she had carried dozens of children to the Foundling Hospital.
Mathieu then remembered what he had witnessed at Madame Bourdieu's and the Foundling Hospital.
And before he even consulted Beauchene it occurred to him to apply at the Foundling Hospital.
The child was left at the Foundling Hospital in my presence.
Without heeding this interruption, Mathieu quietly finished his narrative: "And so I have just come back from the Foundling Hospital, where I learnt that the boy is alive.
On this occasion she was in a greater hurry, as Madame Bourdieu, who employed her in a variety of ways, had asked her to take Norine's child to the Foundling Hospital if she did not take it to Rougemont.
College of Arms;[182] in this version the foundlingis made the son of an Irish king.
In 1869 the Catholics established a Foundling Hospital in New York City.
The future Queen of France was placed with thefoundling nuns of the convent of Santa Lucia in the Via San Gallo.
My wife is, according to what an old thief, who is called among us the Duke of Egypt, has told me, a foundling or a lost child, which is the same thing.
Agnes; "those poor nurses yonder in the foundling asylum, which forms the lower end of the lane as you go to the river, just beside Monseigneur the bishop!
This pretended foundlingis a real monster of abomination," resumed Jehanne.
If I have five children, like Rousseau, I shan't leave them on the steps of a foundling asylum in order to insure their being brought up simply.
Oh, I tell you, Daddy, your littlefoundling is getting to be quite a prominent person!
I wish my parents had chucked me into a French convent when I was little instead of a foundling asylum.
She wanted to know what my mother's maiden name was--did you ever hear such an impertinent question to ask of a person from a foundling asylum?
The chances are that it ends, for with an ash barrel filling its past and a foundling asylum its future, a baby hasn't much of a show.
Annie is a foundling from the asylum temporarily sojourning here.
It is, as its name signifies, an institution with a benevolent purpose, an orphan asylum and foundling hospital in one.
The death of parents oftenest leaves a child with some friend or relative; but the foundling is cut off from all human relationship,--he belongs only to the hand that takes him up, where he has been left to die.
Children from the foundling asylum sometimes rise to be teachers.
Maybe I don't intend to send him to thefoundling asylum.
Are you going to make him your son, or will you, like other folk, put him in the foundling asylum.
I was told that a young woman from Great Britain had just lain in at the lying-in hospital, and had put her child into the foundling hospital.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foundling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
