Left without parents when a young child, he had been brought up in an orphanage which he had voluntarily left when he was fourteen and a half.
It would be the essence of simplicity, using force if necessary, to place him in an orphanage or make him go back to school.
Jeff said quietly, "I lived in an orphanage until I was a little past fourteen.
Moreover, the estate and chateau of Ecouen was also given her, on condition that she allowed the latter to be used as an orphanage for the descendants of soldiers who had served with the Armies of Conde and La Vendee.
We cannot allow an English boy--Assuming that he is the son of a Mason, the sooner he goes to the Masonic Orphanage the better.
If he doesn't, ye'll go to the Military Orphanage at the Regiment's expense.
You were goin' off today to the Military Orphanage at Sanawar, where the Regiment would keep you till you were old enough to enlist.
Visitors to the neighborhood always stopped their carriages or motor cars outside the Orphanage gates, questioned and gaped, sent in their cards, begged for permission to go all over it.
Two hours afterward, when he had transacted his business and drew near to home, he was still thinking of Mr. Barradine and the Orphanage for unguarded innocent girls.
At present the Barradine Orphanage was simply an eye-sore to miles and miles of the country-side, but no doubt, as she thought, it would be all very fine when finished.
Lohe and Lihoa went down to the long low orphanage in which the Sisters of Mercy care for a hundred or more foundlings.
Illustration: The Italian dentist Ruspini presenting the children of his orphanage to the members of the Free Masons Hall in London with whose aid the institution had been founded.
I give his picture and a copy of his first letter to me, translated by one of the missionaries; also some letters from Brother and Sister Jarvis, in charge of the Orphanage in Lahore, India.
State Orphanage children like Ann and me, growing up in a tiny world within a big one, we weren't quite human ever, were we?
This--you remember, Doc--a matron at theOrphanage gave it to me.
From the hurrying traffic of the street she took a final breath of courage, and tugged at the iron bell-pull depending beside the Orphanage gate.
Abreast of the boat, beside the angle of the Orphanage wall, he halted for his rider to alight, and began to nose for herbage among the nettles.
Two hours later, as the Brewery clock struck eleven, a canal-boat, towed by a glimmering grey horse, glided southward under the shadow of the Orphanage wall.
Of this modus operandi the opening move was made as the trio reached the confines of the Orphanage premises.
Hurriedly out of the shadow of the Orphanagewall arose a grey-white figure--a woman.
I have kept this child for close upon eight years, and during the last two the Orphanage has not received one penny of payment.
They broke out, some days ago, from anOrphanage kept here by one Glasson; and I gather that you gave them a helping hand.
She had broken down while looking after an orphanage in Manchester, and the doctor had said that it was absolutely imperative that she should give up all work for some time.
In the meantime she was instructing a class of the older girls in the orphanage in physiology and hygiene, both in English and the vernacular, with the hope that some time they might have regular medical training.
There was no lack of patients for the new doctor; for in addition to her work in the orphanage and her medical class, calls to native homes in the city became more and more frequent.
The young women of the medical class were gaining practice and experience by caring for the sick in the orphanage and the Christian village, and sometimes accompanying Dr.
There is an Anglican convent of the Sisters of St Lawrence, with orphanage and school.
She was near neighbor to the model farm and orphanage presided over by the Scotch ladies.
Mr. Armstrong, who superintends the orphanage and the mission schools in connection with the Presbyterian Church of Ballina.
He felt that it was his disobedience that had brought this trouble on the Parliament and the Orphanage and the Soccer Players, and he felt that it was his duty to try and do something.
And indeed there was quite a crowd round them on the Pebbly Waste: the Prime Minister and the Parliament and the Soccer Players and the Orphanage and the Manticora and the Rocking Horse, and indeed everyone who had been eaten by the Dragon.
The first local establishment of the nature of an orphanage was the so called Orphan Asylum in Summer Lane, built in 1797 for the rearing of poor children from the Workhouse.
The Municipal Orphanage of Amsterdam is among the most interesting; and it is to this refuge that the girls and boys belong whom one sees so often in the streets of the city in curious parti-coloured costume--red and black vertically divided.
If you can find a reliable messenger [said the note, without preamble], I wish you would get those orphanageplans to me at Thornton's office before six.
Mr. Fairfax was so anxious to get hold of those orphanage plans.
And she established herself comfortably by the open window, the orphanage plans, a stiff roll of blue paper, in her lap, her idle eyes following the noonday traffic in the street below.
Still, it was not very reassuring to hear the big hall clock strike six, and suddenly to notice the orphanage plans lying where they had been flung on the hall table.
A moment later she was a trifle disconcerted to find the orphanage plans still in her hand.
Through long dreary years of orphanage "God's Word" had been to her what the star in the East was to Bethlehem's watching shepherds.
But in the meantime go back to the Orphanage and put everything tidy and light the lights, so that the occasion may seem a little solemn.
It was about the Orphanage we were going to talk; quite so.
What I wanted to say was only this, that I have put by a tidy penny out of what I have made by working at this new Orphanage up here.
But I don't know whether Mrs. Alving could do without me--most of all just now, when we have the new Orphanage to see about.
That is why the Orphanage is to exist, to silence all rumours and clear away all doubt.
The Orphanage is, so to speak, dedicated to higher uses.
Indeed the Orphanage is to some extent built for the benefit of the town too, and it is to be hoped that it may result in the lowering of our poor-rate by a considerable amount.
In the best circles in town the matter of this Orphanage is attracting a great deal of attention.
It was only the business in connection with the Orphanage that obliged you to come and see me.
There is a certain large orphanage in the vicinity, in which we had all taken an interest, chiefly because our friends the Macraes of Pettybaw House were among its guardians.
The same God Who then heard their cry will hear the cry of the forlorn, and avenge them, according to the judicial fate which He had just announced, in kind, by bringing their own wives to widowhood and their children to orphanage (xxii.
Nobody had entered it since the orphanage function, when some extra service had been hastily brought in to make the house habitable.
She had not frequented the orphanage in her off-time for nothing; and she was perfectly aware of the anxiety with which the Catholic friends of Bannisdale must needs view the re-entry of Miss Fountain.
During part of Passion week, all Holy week, and half Easter week, priests had been staying in the house--or the orphanage ceremony had detained the Squire.
All the Easter functions at Bannisdale must now be over; the opening of the new orphanage to boot; and the gathering of Catholic gentry to meet the Bishop--in that dreary, neglected house!
You know, however, that we must begin our new buildings at the orphanage in six weeks--and that I must have the money?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orphanage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: asylum; home; retreat; workhouse
