orphan-asylum

I knew I should never be able to learn all the rules and live up to the standards of that misplaced matron of an orphan-asylum.

Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

Having grown accustomed to this style of dress as being the approved daytime garb of the profession, I was not prepared for the appearance of the sandy-haired, austere-looking woman, severely corseted and garbed in a plain, tightly fitting, high-collared dark-gray dress, who looked more like the severe matron of an orphan-asylum than the mistress of the most exclusive "house" in the United States.

Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

In her costly evening gown she still had the appearance of an austere matron of an orphan-asylum, dressed in her Sunday best and awaiting a visit from the board of directors.

Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

In her costly evening gown she still had the appearance of an austere matron of an orphan-asylum, dressed in her Sunday best and awaiting a visit from the board of directors.

Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

I knew I should never be able to learn all the rules and live up to the standards of that misplaced matron of an orphan-asylum.

Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

Having grown accustomed to this style of dress as being the approved daytime garb of the profession, I was not prepared for the appearance of the sandy-haired, austere-looking woman, severely corseted and garbed in a plain, tightly fitting, high-collared dark-gray dress, who looked more like the severe matron of an orphan-asylum than the mistress of the most exclusive "house" in the United States.

Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

Catholic school with 110 pupils, and one orphan-asylum for coloured children, conducted by the Oblate Sisters of Providence.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

The pathos of the Belgian army is like the pathos of an orphan-asylum: it is unconscious.

Golden Lads Arthur Gleason 1900

"I left the top of the brooder open while I went for water the second day after hers and the incubator's had hatched, and when I came back she was just as you see her now, in possession of the entire orphan-asylum."

The Golden Bird Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

She doesn't come to supper, orphan-asylum suppers being refreshments to stay from, not come to, but nearly always they make something on a chafing-dish.

Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" Kate Langley Bosher 1898