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Example sentences for "lost child"

  • LOST CHILD (THE) 10 to 30 or more players.

  • If "Cobbler" Horn had not discovered for himself the identity of his secretary with his long-lost child, was it likely that he would accept that astounding fact on the testimony of any other person?

  • That very day he was to clasp his long-lost child to his heart!

  • It was only last evening that I was led to entertain the thought that Miss Owen might actually prove to be my lost child.

  • He finally told me about you, and said you had told him about a crazy nurse and a lost child, and so I made up my mind to find you, if I could, and see if you knew anything about my past.

  • Don't you remember his telling you a story about a crazy nurse and a lost child?

  • Why should he mention a lost child--a boy?

  • He also mentioned a crazy nurse and a lost child, but could give no details, going off immediately into a wild flight about the roaring of the sea in his ears and the dancing of the lighthouse beacon in his eyes.

  • Maurice was quite safe once more; the danger for him was over; but to Cecile he was still a lost child.

  • In the cool of the evening the two awoke, very hungry, it is true, but still refreshed, and then the dog led the lost child home.

  • It was a strange fact that in both these sisters their affection for all such little ones should lie buried in a lost child's grave.

  • Harry, embracing her with all the fervour of a father who has regained his long-lost child.

  • Her own prospects brighten with the thought that she may, ere long, see them under her own comfortable roof, and bestow a mother's love on the head of her long-lost child.

  • The company made a very brilliant appearance, all earnestly employed in one pursuit, that of pleasure; how different from mine, that of reclaiming a lost child to virtue!

  • The pursuit of a father to reclaim a lost child to virtue 19.

  • In me, in me, To these strange shrines, thy saints in mercy bring Crida's lost Child!

  • The police heard his statement with all proper attention, and wrote it in full upon the station-slate, but they showed no feeling whatever, and behaved as if they valued a lost child no more than a child snug at home in his own crib.

  • We've got a lost child in the kitchen," answered Mrs. Sallie.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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