I have a strong fatherly instinct and all the foundlings are foisted on me.
But that doesn't mean anything--plenty offoundlings are adopted.
Now, since the Outspacers are once more evident, the number offoundlings has increased very greatly.
When the Saucers first began to appear, back in the 20th Century, the number of foundlings began to increase.
He besought those high in authority, but few seemed to think that foundlings were worth saving.
The house for the foundlings was opened in Hatton Garden in 1741, no child being received over two months old.
Of the 74 foundlings in Watson's experiment of Oct.
Yet these dogs were all mongrelfoundlings which had been abandoned near my friend's house or dropped into her garden.
According to the French conception foundlings are orphans, and the French bourgeoisie thus permits its illegitimate children to be reared as "children of the nation" at the expense of the state.
As a corollary of the legislation against infanticide, institutions to care for foundlings came into existence.
He had already been very unfortunate in his plans for obtaining a perfect wife,--having vainly provided for the education of two foundlings between whom he promised himself to select a paragon of a helpmate.
See reports of prefets on the effect of this law, on the ruin of the hospitals, on the misery of the sick, of foundlings and the infirm, from years IX.
Joigny, Mme le Gras and other religious ladies, rescued the foundlings of Paris from the horrors of a primitive institution named La Couche (rue St Landry), and ultimately obtained from Louis XIV.
A decree of 1811 directed that there should be an asylum and a wheel for receiving foundlings in every arrondissement.
But it was in the 7th and 8th centuries that definite institutions for foundlings were established in such towns as Treves, Milan and Montpellier.
Lots of people shrieked, women curled up and quit in every direction, foundlings collapsed by platoons.
The stories of richly-dressed foundlings that are dished up in the newspapers at intervals are pure fiction.
In hard times the number of dead and live foundlings always increases very noticeably.
The high mortality among the foundlings is not to be marvelled at.
The Honorable Society, shocked and indignant, assumed the future immunity of the female foundlings for a slight consideration.
But whence come the three thousand one hundred and sixty foundlings of "Mittermaier" annually received in Rome?
By Mittermaier's proportion the annual number of foundlingsshould now be 5226.
Spirito, and representing the total as an aggregate of foundlings received.
Of the total number, some were of legitimate births, as shown by authentic parish certificates; others of doubtful or uncertain birth; as follows: Foundlings Of legitimate Uncertain.
This number of foundlings does not represent the amount of illegitimacy, for very many of the foundlings are lawful children.
Without doubt, from adding up all the inmates of the different asylums for children in Rome, and the foundlings of S.
The total number of foundlings received in Rome is about 900 annually.
In the Greek poets there are several allusions to rich childless men adopting foundlings, and Juvenal says it was common for Roman wives to palm off foundlings on their husbands for their sons.
The foundlings of large cities furnish the most striking and convincing proof of the great advantages of nursing over the use of artificially-prepared food.
On the continent of Europe, in Lyons and Parthenay, where foundlings are wet-nursed from the time they are received, the deaths are 33.
A Roman Catholic Hospital for Foundlings was recently established, and is now receiving aid from the city treasury.
The French administration does not cease with paying the board of these foundlings in their country homes; it looks carefully after their clothing, their education, their religious instruction, and even their habits of economy.
In the Tewksbury Alms-house the mortality in 1860 among the foundlings was forty-seven out of fifty-four, or eighty-seven per cent.
The neglect, however, of the strange child soon becomes apparent even to the casual visitor; and these poorfoundlings are often fairly starved or abused to death by the mother forced to nurse them.
According to the French fiction, foundlings are orphans.
At present foundlings and poor orphans are received at the asylum of Les Enfants Assistés from the first day of their birth until their twelfth year.
Such was the scandalous state of things which St. Vincent de Paul undertook to reform when he founded in 1638, near the gate of Saint-Victor, an asylum for foundlings directed by ladies of charity.
In a society so profoundly democratic as ours, in which waiters have become kings, the sons of innkeepers prime ministers, and foundlings illustrious men of science, there is a place for everyone.
Those of the foundlingswho did not die helped to swell the number of the vagabonds, beggars, and thieves.
I adopt a certain number of books every year, out of a love for the foundlings and stray children of other people's brains that nobody seems to care for.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foundlings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
