foundlings

• She's just like your foundlings, Mrs. France, he'd wheedled last night in the hall as that dog of his barked and growled and the Peg-creature stood right there beside him, grinning as-you-please and stinking the place out. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 05 - May 1995
• Beyond the yew hedges lay the walled garden, and there, in a sheltered comer beside the thyme and the mint, were the hutches for her foundlings that kind Mr. Groves had made for her. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 05 - May 1995
• Writing a year or two before his death he had assured himself that his determining reason was the fear of a destiny for his children a thousand times worse than the hard life of foundlings, namely, being spoiled by their mother, being turned into monsters by her family, and finally being taught to hate and betray their father by his plotting enemies[142]. —  Rousseau (Volume 1 of 2)
• This latter was founded by St. Vincent de Paul for the bringing up of foundlings, but had fallen into a state of pitiable neglect. —  Elizabeth Fry
• Justinian provided that foundlings should be free. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals

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