waif

• He doubted if she meant it literally, but it was obvious that she was some kind of waif or stray. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 05 - May 1995
• A year ago, he'd been a waif-- capable of joy, the picture proved that -but more often sad, uncertain, alienated, and angry. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 03 - September 1994
• Everyone knew Cherisse was looking for a roommate just as much as the waif was looking for a room, but as to what else they both might be looking for Cherisse heard the whispers all right. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 05 - May 1997
• He who had till then held him by the hand, refused to guide him, cast him off into the darkness without a word All is over," he thought; "I am condemned to float here below, like a waif which no one wants; no shore is henceforward accessible, for if the world refuses me, I disgust God. —  En Route
• Paris and Notre Dame de l'Atre have rejected me each in their turn like a waif, and here I am condemned to live apart, for I am still too much a man of letters to become a monk, and yet I am already too much a monk to remain among men of letters He leapt up and was silent, dazzled by jets of electric light which flooded him as the train stopped He had returned to Paris If they," he said, thinking of those writers whom it would no doubt be difficult not to see again, "if they knew how inferior they are to the lowest of the lay brothers! —  En Route

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