foundling

• Boy or not, the foundling is the offspring of my beloved. —  Witch Gate.htm
• There was something amiss with the foundling, and he knew it. —  LADY OF CONQUEST - TERESA MEDEIROS
• Noting certain physical peculiarities suggestive of aquatic adaptations, she begins to suspect that her foundling is one of the merpeople of Island lore—one of whom she glimpsed as a young girl To complicate things, her “finding” talent asserts itself as, in close tempo with hot flashes, objects from her past begin to reappear: toys and books from her childhood, a bloody machete, even the cashew grove her father planted on their home island. —  Asimov'sSF,August2007
• Geraldine, on the other hand, was brought right up to the doorstep in the middle of the night—like a foundling or a terrorist's bomb—by someone who managed to elude detection by the Reggiesystem security protocols. —  FSFOct/Nov2004
• I am a nameless foundling, and have been handed about from one to another, and they were not the kind in whom one could take pride. —  A Little Girl in Old Quebec

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