The necessity of visiting Japan on errands of mercy to return these waifs became a frequent one.
Furthermore, the Japanese waifs blown out to sea were drifted into the Black Current and to the Kurile and Aleutian islands, to Russian and British America, to Oregon and California, and even to Hawaii.
After six months in Riu Kiu and thirty months in Nagasaki, the waifs reached their homes.
The Commodore awaited only the arrival of the Macedonian from Manilla, whither she had gone to return the waifs picked up at sea, to turn over his command to Captain Abbot.
It was the picking up at sea of another lot of waifs by Captain Jennings, of the barque Auckland who took them to San Francisco.
Ocean Waifs no longer, the crew of the Catamaran became embodied with that of the ship, and her little passenger found kindness and protection in the cabin of the whaler.
It occurred to him also, that the greater the number of waifs sent in their way, the better would be their chance of seeing and getting hold of one of them.
Let me advise you to cultivate smilax round your window," added his lordship, doubtless thinking of his magnificent greenhouses, and little realising the misery and squalor in which the waifs of the great city dwelt.
A young child sat on the floor nursing a half-starved cat--both waifs of the street rescued from utter misery by the good Samaritan.
And he had been rich and prosperous, and yet had never given a thought to those poor little waifs whose life he himself had once lived.
Miss Brand was heartily glad when the distribution was over, and she could see the poor waifs happy with their little presents.
The schoolroom looked like a little paradise to the poor waifs assembled there.
The only other resource was the colonial militia, whose waifs and strays alone could be induced to enlist.
I in the meantime went to our former hosts for one night to pick up Mabelle and the waifs and strays of luggage.
It's a pretty step, and we shall ask you to do it again when we give our garden fête in aid of the 'Waifs and Strays.
I thought we were all beggars when we tried to raise money for the 'Waifs and Strays'; Bertha buzzes worse than any mosquito when she wants to borrow my penknife, and I thought there was an earthquake the last time Laurette danced.
No, the wood nymphs have all trotted over to England, and are going to give a performance in aid of the 'Waifs and Strays!
It was perhaps Carmel's rendering of the Pastorale dance that suggested to Miss Walters a scheme of entertainment for the garden fête which the girls were to give in aid of the "Homes for Waifs and Strays.
My longing is to send forth, so soon as the ice breaks, 500 of our poor street boys, waifs and strays that have been gathered in, to the warm-hearted Canadian farmers.
In 1870, Isabella Thoburn gathered six little waifs into her first school in India, a one-roomed building in the noisy, dusty bazaar of Lucknow.
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He put into my hands old books, unprinted diaries, scraps of paper inscribed by great figures in historic moments, the solid sources, and also the waifs and strays from which proper history must be built up.
They were the waifs at low tide from which his towering mind rose to the measuring of the courses of the stars.
The resource of the steamer's company was to sit on the upper deck, watch the swollen river with its waifs of uprooted trees and the banks green with the summer, chatting ourselves into intimacy.
MacDougall has the same story inWaifs and Strays, iii.
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The waifs gathered round an outdoor table, too busy swallowing food to bother about their possible and likely fate.
But these refused her invitation as well; so she went into the slums and collected thirty harmless waifs who felt that a lion's birthday party was not to be despised, and brought them triumphantly into the Italian gardens.
Then, then I knew these blooms which she had given Were strays of parting grief and waifs of Heaven For tears and memories; too delicate For eyes of earth such souls immaculate!
His love for waifs and strays as a child increased with years; it had been impressed upon his boyish memory, and when he became a young man and walked the wards of the London Hospital, it increased.
The sun is shining upon these one-time waifs and strays, these children of the East--the flowers seem to grow for them, and the grass keeps green as though to atone for the dark days which ushered in their birth.
But I find only one who has endowed a home for them and given it sufficient means to support the strays and waifs who reach its shelter.
Queen Victoria and her daughters take a deep interest, not alone in finely bred cats, but in poor and homeless waifs as well.
For thrones and peoples are as waifs that swing And float or fall, in endless ebb and flow; But who love best have best the grace to know That Love, by right divine, is deathless King.
If the waifsgrow up to be predatory animals, we must maintain them first of all in reformatories, and afterwards, at intervals during their lives, in prisons.
What we want to do is to take the waifs and strays into places where they may lead a natural and healthy life.
We cannot take Chinese methods of lessening the pressure of population, and we must at once decide on the wisest way of dealing with our waifs and strays; if we do not, then the chances are that they will deal unpleasantly with us.
How much better it is to see these poor waifs changed into useful, profitable colonists than to have them sullenly, uselessly starving in the dens of London and Liverpool and Manchester!
Most people were very kind to him, looking upon him as one of the wandering waifs that one finds throughout the Cumberland, upon whom the good folks of the mountains do not visit the father's sin.
Jack and Chad; so that it looked an uneven conflict, indeed, for the two waifs from over Pine Mountain.
The sun was low when the two waifs turned their backs upon it, and the blue shadows in valley and ravine were darkening fast.
Two waifs who had so suffered and who could so fight could have a home under that roof if they pleased, forever.
David was allowed to visit him, but the bishop spoke only of the waifs from the slums around the mission, who had not forgotten an old friend.
And besides these, humbler friends: waifs and strays, reclaimed drunkards, factory girls, who had read in the papers that the man who had been kind to them lay dying.
If a dry, open winter followed, success was assured; if the reverse, was it right to try out the very souls of these waifs in a wintry crucible?
If a firing line of veteran soldiers can be heartened, surely the spirit and courage of orphan waifs needed fortifying against the coming winter.
Forrest was nearly forty, while Priest was fully fifty years of age; neither had ever had children of his own, and their hearts went out in manly fullness to these waifs of the plain.
Was there a possible tide in the primitive range, which taken at its flood would lead these waifs to fortune?
Consequently, a young man was sent with me to see that wise selections were made for the little homeless waifs for whom the relief was designed.
The improvement, both in conduct and in morals, of the neglected littlewaifs whom we had gathered into our asylum, urged us on in our work; for we realized that our experiment was a success.
These poor waifsand strays, who were thankful for a few weeks' haven, would think themselves rich beyond measure if they owned one half the blessings she herself possessed.
If she were a government official, they could comprehend, but they cannot understand how or why anybody should take so great a care of waifs and strays, all for the sake of the humanity of our Lord.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waifs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
