For his whole heart had gone out to this little waif that he rescued from the river, and at last the solitary man had found something to love.
He cared for the waif very tenderly; and as the child was strong and healthy she was not much trouble to him, and to his delight grew bigger day by day.
Lottie she still clung to, but I had become a useless waif in the household.
The island where the waif from Mott street cast anchor is called Randall's Island, and there its stay ends, or begins.
As the dead-wagon drove away with its load in the morning, Matron Travers came out with the now sleeping waif in her arms.
In reverent and grateful memory she held the thought of his care for her when she had been left a waif by her own father's death.
God do unto us as we do unto this waif from the sea.
The same afternoon Mr. Adam Morrison, going to the spot to verify what he had heard, found the miserable little waif he adopted afterward.
For three long weeks this went on, and often it seemed that the little waif would drift out of life without being able to give the slightest clue to his identity.
Mr Maxwell had already lifted the little waif in his arms, however.
A whimsical impulse seized her to furnish the waif with all of the dainty which he could possibly consume, and satisfy his craving for one time, at least.
In a wonderfully brief time the waif had arrayed himself from head to foot, and coolly surveyed himself in the long mirror that stood upon its rollers in one corner.
The waif had not at all comprehended her meaning when she spoke of "home," and so she had not committed herself.
But there was no sign of the strayed sailor; and realizing that there was nothing to be gained by hanging about the station, Terry went out into the streets, a waif in a fuller sense than ever before in his life.
Now, by an odd stroke of fate, he found himself a waif on board one of these very vessels, and he didn't like the idea at all.
Yes, I suppose it is 'Leah'--the witlesswaif my Dorothy found.
The waif always rebelled when Dinah or Norah sought to dress her in the gray gown she had originally worn or to put her hair into a snug knot.
Meanwhile, the waif is well cared for and as happy as she can ever be, I fancy.
So then for nearly three months Patterson’s body had lain on the surface of this ice-waif which we had met on our way from the Kerguelens to Tristan d’Acunha!
Then he looked into the cab where the still form of the prairie waif lay shaded by a piece of tarpaulin which Seth had found on the engine.
On his way home that afternoon, and all the next day, the Indians were in his thoughts only so far as this waif he had picked up was concerned.
He was denied her presence and was as miserable as any waif in a poor farm attic.
The plot of The Kedziad was to be based on the From-Rags-to-Riches leitmotiv, Kedzie was to be a cruelly treated waif brought up as a boy by a demoniac Italian padrone who made her steal.
On the second day Kedzie was a slum waif and did not like it.
Now she felt divorced and abandoned, a waif on the public mercy.
She was supposed to be a slum waifwho had never had a mother's care.
According to his memory, he had married Kedzie because she was a pitiful, heartbroken waif who had lost her job and thrown herself on his mercy.
He stands before her, the divine debauchee racemiferis frontem circumdatus uvis; and all around her, a waif on his territory, are the symbols of his majesty and his power.
Anything beyond a cork, or the tiniest waif of seaweed, could scarce fail to be seen from the strand, though the latter was itself, constantly receding as the tide flowed inward.
Indeed, this waif of the streets, sometimes called James Finnegan, was seldom known to be otherwise.
Why should he be reared as a gentleman--he, a poor waif of the sea?
He is a waif of the sea--cast up from that wreck; yet my aunt presents him to the world as a Ruthven--when he may be of very low birth.
Of course such a poor little motherlesswaif must be cared for, so I brought it in, and it received very readily the provender I offered it.
And again that amazing blond- skinned giant emerged, on his two legs upstanding, a broken waiflike a rat in either hand.
He mounts the chancel of some fir tree and utters at intervals a single long-drawn note of brooding melancholy and exalted beauty,--a voice stranger than the sound of any instrument, a waif echo stranding on the shores of time.
Mrs. Barry bit her lip and did not love the waif the more that she had been able to defend her.
When my ship went down, I was a waif upon the waters.
Like a waif which had been picked up from the sea, I had nothing on me but shirt and trousers, and these, as well as my hair, were dripping water.
Then she closed the window and turned to the slender shrinking figure at her side, drawing back the heavy hood that shielded the girl's face to look into the features of the little foreign waif she had taken to her heart.
The wave reared up under the vessel and fell back, throwing the waif back in its mane of foam.
From the discovery of a parchment in a waifdrifted by the sea.
Moreover, ere we feel astonished that a waif so fragile should have floated for fifteen years undamaged, we should seek to understand the tender care of the ocean.
Waif of an unknown fate, he commingled with all the wild secrets of the night.
The soldier carried the waif to the colonel of the castle, and the colonel sent it to the High Admiral of England.
