But Major Bugbee, to whom the cobbler's wife had been remotely akin, and who was at that time first selectman of the town, took the orphans with him to his house, where they tarried till he found good places for them.
I thought of the orphans and widows he had made--of the tears that had been shed for his glory, and of the only woman who ever loved him, pushed from his heart by the cold hand of ambition.
One of these orphans was Peter Zenger, who was apprenticed to William Bradford, at that time the only printer in the colony.
But HE has told even the orphans to call him 'Father!
The sun was as bright and the sky as calm during the journey of the orphans as in the last.
The Friends of Armenia did active and zealous service through a number of years, laboring not only for the saving of life, but for the support and education of the thousands of women and orphans left desolate.
Weave but the flag whose bars to-day Drooped heavy o'er our early dead, And homely garments, coarse and gray, For orphans that must earn their bread!
I believe that the movement to establish a Home for the Widows and Orphans of Kentucky Red Men is the greatest work ever undertaken by our beloved Order in Kentucky.
The special committee on Orphansreported they had performed the duties intrusted to them and asked to be discharged, which was done, and it was ordered that the Great Sachem appoint another committee to continue the work ad interim.
The old committee on Widows and Orphans reported having in its possession the sum of $472.
After a while, there came a great sickness upon the city, and so many mothers and fathers died that there were more orphans than the asylum could possibly take care of.
They carried home the two little orphans in silence.
At one time, in this part of Scotland, the children of paupers and of criminals, and the orphans of the poor, were brought up in numbers in the poorhouse.
The trouble is that the measures that would aid one set of widows and orphans would hurt the other; and even when legislation is passed its action is delayed out of tenderness to existing interests.
At length the orphans sank to sleep All on the freezing deck; Close huddled side to side--each arm Clasp'd round the other's neck.
Only the orphans do not stir, Of all this bustling train: They reached their home this starry night!
They say that the Republic adopts all the orphans of France.
By the advice of St. Cajetan and others, he passed to the continent and erected like hospitals for orphans at Brescia, Bergamo, and other places; and others for the reception of penitent women.
He procured two houses to be erected at Rome for the relief of poor orphans of both sexes, and another for the maintenance of young women whose poverty might expose their virtue to danger.
Weapons of war strew the field with mangled and ghastly corpses, and fill the land with widows and orphans and broken hearts.
Let the sound of your footsteps on the stairs be music to the widow and orphans in the garret, the light of your countenance sunshine in the dismal basement, and your presence a benediction at the bed of death.
Wicked magicians had slain their parents while they were yet of tender years, and the little orphans were obliged to fend for themselves.
The Archon Eponymus determined all disputes relative to the family, the gentile, and the phratric relations: he was the legal protector of orphans and widows.
Briefly, I had to disappear in order to save a number of widows and orphans from losing what little money they depended on for a living.
When you gave me that message to the effect that the money was all right, I knew that the affairs of the subway had been so arranged that the stock would not go down and the widows and orphans would not suffer.
However, a subscription was raised both in England and France for the benefit of the widow and orphans of Niepce de St. Victor.
The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires!
The orphans of the heart | must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires!
I christen the little orphans Dick and Sis, and the memory of my previous birds is revived among inmates and officers.
Orphans in the slums of Allegheny, they had been sent to the reform school at Morganza, for snatching fruit off a corner stand.
The Common Council voted another sum of £500 for the relief of the wounded and the widows and orphans of those who had died in the action, but Nelson's name is not even mentioned.
They also passed a vote of thanks to the officers and men engaged in the action, and contributed the sum of £500 for the relief of the widows and orphans of those who had fallen.
The castle is well preserved, and is now used as a hospice for orphans and aged women.
The Emperor has restored it to its original position, and it is now placed under the control of the Bishop of Coutances, and is used as an asylum for orphans under the care of a few Sisters.
All the week through they had laboured, nursed, and tended the sick and wounded in the Hospitals, and washed and fed and taught the numberless orphans of the siege, and upon this day the Mother-Superior had ruled that they were to be together.
For the wounded and disabled soldiers and the widows and orphans of those who fell, a larger provision of pensions was freely granted than ever before by any nation in ancient or modern times.
State the importance of the work of Pestalozzi from the point of view of showing the world how to deal with orphans and defectives.
Workhouse schools and "schools of industry" also were used to provide for orphans and the children of paupers (p.
Orphans to the number of 169 were left in the little town of Stanz, and citizen Pestalozzi was given charge of them.
Practically all the Virginia colonial legislation relating to education refers either to William and Mary College (founded in 1693), or to the education of orphans and the children of the poor.
Massachusetts law of 1660, providing for the apprenticeship of orphans and homeless children, the beginnings of child- welfare work in the American Colonies were made.
Orphans to be educated "according to the competence of their estate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orphans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
