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The movie was based on the Broadway musical in which an orphan's life is transformed when she goes to live with the wealthy industrialist Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.
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Tomorrow we're going to an orphan's Christmas feast and I'm staring at a MOUNTAIN of vegetables I'll be preparing for twenty people, so didn't want to mess around in the kitchen today.
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Thus does the prince snare one of the orphan's dainty shoes and with it, ultimately, the lovely orphan herself.
Tales of Snow and Blue Horses Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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Tomorrow we're going to an orphan's Christmas feast and I'm staring at a MOUNTAIN of vegetables I'll be preparing for twenty people, so didn't want to mess around in the kitchen today.
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I like to think of "Mother Mother" as the orphan's cry for rescue from displacement, an idea which I think resonates well with the band as we're hard to peg and people don't always know where to put us.
Jon Chattman: Sound Bites: Gomez HP Exclusive Premiere New Song; Mother Mother Interview Jon Chattman 2011
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A 19th-century orphan's questions over his parentage lead into a four-hour labyrinth of subplots, flashbacks, diversions and reversals in Ruiz's fluent epic.
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Tomorrow we're going to an orphan's Christmas feast and I'm staring at a MOUNTAIN of vegetables I'll be preparing for twenty people, so didn't want to mess around in the kitchen today.
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To escape the vats I would stop at nothing steal the widow's mite, the orphan's crust, and pennies from a dead man's eyes.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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I like to think of "Mother Mother" as the orphan's cry for rescue from displacement, an idea which I think resonates well with the band as we're hard to peg and people don't always know where to put us.
Jon Chattman: Sound Bites: Gomez HP Exclusive Premiere New Song; Mother Mother Interview Jon Chattman 2011
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Tomorrow we're going to an orphan's Christmas feast and I'm staring at a MOUNTAIN of vegetables I'll be preparing for twenty people, so didn't want to mess around in the kitchen today.
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