Orphans
['ɔrfən]
Examples
- Except that we are both orphans, we are in every respect as unlike each other as possible. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He and Jo keep us merry, for we get pretty blue sometimes, and feel like orphans, with you so far away. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They were both orphans and (what was very unexpected and curious to me) had never met before that day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Parents boldly represented themselves as dead, and brought their orphans with them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Orphans, in the fullest sense of the term, we were poorest among the poor, and despised among the unhonoured. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Well, all the girls here have lost either one or both parents, and this is called an institution for educating orphans. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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