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Example sentences for "orphan asylum"

  • My sister was taken to an orphan asylum in a city some distance away.

  • Four years ago Mrs. Wilson had taken her from the orphan asylum in town.

  • I believe that my parents died when I was about three years old, and I was then taken to an orphan asylum.

  • The success which has attended the Orphan Asylum Society, furnishes strong encouragement to attempt great and good objects even with slender means.

  • We're getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he's coming on the train tonight.

  • The object of the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum is sufficiently indicated by its name.

  • It was in the register, Aileen Armagh, from an orphan asylum in New York.

  • Champney was genuinely surprised; "I thought you came from an orphan asylum.

  • On a hill a short distance from the road the "Orphan Asylum" was pointed out to me, by my companion, as a monument of the benevolence and public spirit of the ladies of Natchez.

  • I myself am not always certain that I was born an orphan asylum superintendent.

  • Your siren call would never have lured me from the path of frivolity had Gordon not been so unpleasantly hilarious at the idea of my being able to manage an orphan asylum.

  • It isn't any absurder, though, than me in an orphan asylum, or you as a conservative settled matron, or Marty Keene a social butterfly in Paris.

  • Me--I, Sallie McBride, the head of an orphan asylum!

  • There ought also to be an almshouse and an orphan asylum, and other similar institutions.

  • Upon the second point they say that provision should be made for ecclesiastical and municipal property, church services, an orphan asylum and an almshouse.

  • What complaints would have been made if the Director had undertaken to make collections for an almshouse and an orphan asylum!

  • And it is not known, nor can it be proven, that any one of the inhabitants of New Netherland has contributed or given, either voluntarily or upon solicitation, anything for the erection of an orphan asylum or an almshouse.

  • A January sun had passed the zenith, and the slanting rays flamed over the window panes of a large brick building, bearing on its front in golden letters the inscription "Orphan Asylum.

  • Misfortune placed Miss Benton, at an early age, in an orphan asylum, and while quite young she left it to earn a support.

  • After asking a few friends to sign an article of agreement to pay one dollar a year during five years for the orphan asylum, and mailing a couple of letters to Levi Coffin and Rev.

  • We made an effort to secure a house for an orphan asylum.

  • Before six, a steamer stopped, and we took passage for Natchez, as we had business to see to concerning an orphan asylum.

  • No; but she had heard Mr. Cary say there was an Orphan Asylum here, and not knowing what else to do, she came on with her.

  • I never have understood how Miss Katherine could have come to an Orphan Asylum to live and to eat Orphan Asylum meals when she could have eaten the best in Yorkburg.

  • She wasn't meant to live in an Orphan Asylum.

  • You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum.

  • I believe Mrs. Bishop did say something about some friend of hers who knew of somebody who was about to take a child from an orphan asylum; but I remember now, she especially wanted a blonde.

  • Mrs. Milly must think I’m anxious to start an orphan asylum?

  • Well, then let’s take her to an orphan asylum or children’s home and just leave her there.

  • This dual society has about 100 members and occupies the upper floor of the Catholic Institute in Church street, property originally bought by Father Senez for an orphan asylum.

  • Here you erected St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, and laid out the cemetery of the Holy Sepulchre.

  • The farmhouse situated on the property purchased from Mr. Smith was changed into an orphan asylum; since that time a number of alterations and additions have been made.

  • The histories of the Cemetery of the Holy Sepulchre and the Catholic Orphan Asylum are so closely connected that they will be treated together.

  • Daphne interrupted her father, who was plainly trying to find words to explain the exact meaning of an orphan asylum.

  • An orphan asylum--a home for waifs of this kind.

  • What better proof does anybody want than the story of Mr. Hoda's Orphan Asylum?

  • She took me to an orphan asylum in a straggly little southern town where everything from river banks to complexions was mud color.

  • It's all we can do to support that menagerie in the garden without starting an orphan asylum.

  • Do you remember the day that Tom dressed in your blue apron, with a bunch of keys at his belt and pretended to personate me at the head of an orphan asylum, how we all laughed?

  • It will discipline him for the work I shall assign him in my orphan asylum, and moreover I feel concerned about the pain in Daddy's big toe.

  • At parting Tom wickedly mentioned to Little Wolf that he was concerned for the prosperity of that much talked of orphan asylum.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always will; before him; being agreeable; different sizes; gave myself; hushed voice; little story; metallic currency; more children; not you; orphan asylum; our family; outward nature; sent home; single stroke; sliding down; small beer; sour milk; voted against; when considered; with them; your right