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How to use orphan in a sentence

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The Earl had suggested that David pretend to be an orphan whose parents had been American gentility.
My mother was quite short in stature, she had been an orphan, and my cousin Vera considered her very beautiful.
Eight years later he returned to France an orphan, his parents having been deported to Auschwitz by the Vichy authorities.
This three-month old baby escaped with a fractured wrist, but is now an orphan as both parents were killed.
I learned from Ted who guided me like a patient headmaster leading a purblind orphan around a country fair.
The forceful, careerist Hepburn keeps Tracy off-balance, speaking multiple languages, shielding political refugees, and adopting a Greek orphan.
Since she's naught but an orphan, lacking dowry and family, then you should be content with a handfast.
Isabel Thwaites was an orphan and had been placed under the guardianship of the Abbess of a nunnery at Appleton, near York.
She didn't have nowheres else to go, what with her being an orphan like me, so Rachel's ma kept him from letting her go.
Wheeler is a mudlark, an orphan aged about 10, scavenging a living on the banks of the Thames in London.
Dressed in tatters and singing mournfully, she played the part of the hungry orphan to perfection.
One child, abandoned years earlier at hospital by his mother, has attached himself to Nancy, who mothers the orphan, discipline and all.
One medical gas, nitric oxide, has been licensed as an orphan drug and increased in price.
Most insurers, plcs and mutuals alike, are sitting on large heaps known as orphan assets or free estates.
The film tells the story of a ragged group of orphan children who attempt a desperate walk to freedom across a war-torn country.
It could be by helping someone needy, whether it is a relative, a neighbour, a wayfarer, an orphan, a lady waiting to get married, or a student.
From what I have gathered they are going to adopt an orphan and have told many people.
She'd never been anything but rude and ignorant to Josie, knowing Josie was but an orphan.
She was so thrilled by the prospect of motherhood that Thorn follows the advice of a priest and agrees to accept an orphan child as his own.
The series deals with the moving yet comical exploits of a likeable red-haired orphan.
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Examples from Classical Literature
At his birth he was an orphan, his father having died a few weeks previously.
She was an orphan and unhappy, and on this day of triumph she felt the need of a family.
She put the orphan at the foot of the bunk, drew the quilt over it and set to work.
For one night the monster devoured out of the village of anis six hens, a sheep, and a young orphan child called little Elo.
He had to cook his own meals, which he used to share with ratan, an orphan girl of the village, who did odd jobs for him.
Now there was an orphan boy in the village who sat with the humble people over the entrance way of the kashim.
Tomorrowland is the orphan division of Disneyland, thrown in as sop to those interested more in the future than the past.
Dolokhov was a suitable and in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl.
To prune feeble plants and shrubs is like acting the part of dry-nurse to a sickly orphan.
Mr. Johnson was hardly restrained by his compassion for the orphan from throwing up the executorship in disgust.
But Janet kept her ground, and continued to weep and wail and apostrophize the dead mother, or appeal to the orphan child.
There was instant and clamant disapproval, each one of us urging an unquestionable claim to the guardianship of the orphan Menace.
The child was not improbably an orphan, seeing that he was in the care of a grandparent.
Glory Quayle was an orphan, and her grandfather was a poor country clergyman.
He would not adopt a nameless orphan, found with a poor goatherd of Phelle.
The woman whom he had selected was an unportioned orphan, and was recommended merely by her moral qualities.
She had ceased to think about the lad while she was giving this explanation of an orphan to her son.
I'm only the fellow that set fire to an orphan asylum, and murdered a blind man for his pennies.
This beautiful maiden was Alexandrine Flicie Villeminot, an orphan.
He was an orphan, with hardly a blood relation in the world.
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