Foundlings

His "Foundlings" and his "Dinner at the Foundling Hospital" are peopled with the same round-cheeked babies.

Goupil's Paris Salon of 1897 1897

Money was raised by subscription and the Foundlings of Bloomsbury soon became a fashionable cause.

Threads of feeling Kathryn Hughes 2010

He was also able to tell me that the priest was a former resident of an Institution for Foundlings and Orphans that has a somewhat questionable reputation for the harshness of their regime.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

Not long after her censuring, Sister Palagia is sailing on the steamboat Sturgeon when someone kills Manuila, the messianic leader of the Jewish sect Foundlings.

Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel-Boris Akunin « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

Time was, when the Foundlings were received without question in a cradle at the gate.

No Thoroughfare 2007

The latter was led, and chiefly taught, by Wilding himself: who had hopes of converting his dependents into so many Foundlings, in respect of their capacity to sing sacred choruses.

No Thoroughfare 2007

Foundlings and illegitimate children had no parents to object.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

'I'm tell't that he's left a muckle legacy to the Foundlings.

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

We get also by this blessed means some Foundlings for our Hospitals, and Brats for our

A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 Anonymous

When Handel heard of the proposal, however, he burst out in a rage with, 'Te teufel! for what sall de Foundlings put mein moosic in de Parliament?

Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham