Synonym: orphan, waif. Similar words: profoundly, handling, kindling, fondling, swindling, dwindling, founding, confounding. Meaning: ['faʊndlɪŋ] n. a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown.
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(1) Maria della Scala in Siena as a foundling.
(2) Miriam and Amina were not foundlings.
(3) Our foundling is fast becoming a woman.
(4) Of about half a million foundlings christened in workhouses after 1728, only 40 percent survived to their second birthday.
(5) He is a foundling, and has grown up in a school for homeless boy.
(6) New York Foundling, an agency in New York, runs a crisis centre, where parents can leave their children for up to three weeks.
(7) James Michener began life as a foundling and started with absolutely nothing.
(8) Unlike Tom, who was a foundling, Jia Baoyu in the Chinese novel was the pampered son of a wealthy , influential, aristocratic family .
(9) When she was building her first foundling asylum , what was he doing?
(10) Thomas Coram's Foundling Hospital opened in 1741 to look after the abandoned babies of unmarried mothers[sentencedict.com/foundling.html], attracting support from the cream of society.
(11) And Sarah believed he could bend the rules of the Foundling Hospital so that she could have the child with her always.
(12) They provided hospices for the sick or for raising the innumerable foundlings.
(13) She could see that Mrs Morey was besotted with the Foundling child, and she began to feel sorry for her.
(14) This thesis makes a tentative study of Ch'ien Chung-shu's critical assimilation of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding.
(15) I suppose the registrar didn't think it would be right to ask a properly brought-up girl to room with a foundling.
(16) Every Sunday[sentencedict.com], my best friend Marilyn and I went to the foundling home behind the hospital.
(17) Gewangshi, the wife of Geyunian's second son had contribute 2000Liang silver to purchase the land and houses as the cost of foundling.
(18) If Britomart wants the foundry in the family, she should find a foundling to marry Barbara.
(19) On top of this I was accused of employing toothless and incompetent old relatives to prepare the food for the foundling hospital when I was warden .
(20) If I were forced to choose a bride, I would rather choose you, my dumb foundling, with those expressive eyes.
(21) Feilding showed us his thorough and systematic male chauvinism in terms of his novel-The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, namely, male was the main stay in that society.
(22) Her masterpiece, Wuthering Heights, is the wild, passionate story of the intense, almost demonic, love between Catherine Earnshaw and the Gypsy foundling Heathcliff.
(23) Where Walcott is rustic and galloping, the Everton-era Rooney was squarely in English football's urban foundling tradition.
(24) He was a priest and later (1709) music director at a school for foundling girls, the Seminario dell'Ospitale della Pieta.
(25) Proper existence is a natural competition rule, disobeying the business enterprise of this rule with personal foundling that will become ages.
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