Mrs Tarpen had no problem with that idea, and she rather liked the idea of helping a homeless waif off the streets.
Jay, dear, go get her luggage, this little waif who was obviously underfed in London, shouldn't have to carry her own.
Robby's wife was a beautiful yet petite waif of a woman with straight, jet black hair.
Those movies wanted us to see her as a Pre-Raphaelite figure but she verged on a Walter Keane waif.
The waif seemed eager to get inside, but I didn't want to alienate her affections if she had a home.
I am not some anaemic little waif who looks like she'll blow away in a strong wind.
There were more of those girls than there were little waif heroin-looking chicks.
British waif Kate Moss was to follow, helping to launch his unisex perfume CK one.
Carilya was odd, a slender frail-looking girl, though no longer the skinny waif she had been.
It confuses me, being the over-educated waif stuck in a world of immorality, no clear route out.
Actually, the Kincaid character had a woeful start, spending the first of her three seasons as a tedious, incompetent waif.
I suppose Jin thinks I am a weeping waif, looking for a poor soul to shed her troubles on in a rain of sobs and runny noses.
A male opponent small enough for Diana to handle would have to be a scrappy waif of a flyweight.
It's what the cool waif girls would throw on effortlessly but still look amazing.
The charm of his take on the situation is that the golden boy and girl expand their bubble of radiant happiness to let the waif in.
Artie enters with a lost teen waif named Donna whom he found in an elevator.
Once a tiny, flitting waif, she had become a graceful, full-figured woman.
The cast includes this actress, as the season's most adorable waif, whose anacoluthic lament for a hot-rod lover creates a haunting innocence amid squalor.
Her films were all about the sweet waif bringing grown-ups back together, emptying misers' pockets and melting frozen hearts.
I lived as a waif and stray among the rocks and sea and sand and sun, sustained by the love of a silent woman, Paule Peurière.
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In the book, Mignon is a mysterious young waif who is rescued by Wilhelm Meister from a circus troupe that was treating her badly.
No it's not an obsession, it is the fact that never has a footballer's sheer skill so intoxicated me as that of the spindly-legged waif from Belfast.
Coogan essentially reprises the role that made him famous, only this time he's an immigrant waif orphaned during his sea passage from the Old World.
But Nicole claims that she's always been a tiny bony little waif, and during season one of The Simple Life, she was going through a rare chubby period.
Who thinks a white blond, blue-eyed, slender waif can commit murder?
Her scruffy waif look was as far as possible from the sophisticated luxury of her childhood.
We were in stitches at the idea of him suddenly recognising in horror that the grubby waif loitering around Grand Central for a cheap meal was actually his petite cousin.
What a surprise to see François, the waif, and Madeleine sitting at table of Germain and the Petite Marie  who have just left their devilish pool.
True, Larry is a waif from a cats' home in Battersea, lending the affair a Dickensian flavour that will appeal to the Conservatives' mill-owning tendency, but Tories are natural dog owners.
Playing the grown-up counterpart to Ziegler's dancing waif, Wiig wore a bobbed wig and recreated the video's surrealist dance moves, sliding around a dishevelled apartment set.
I imagined Kate Moss, the leading waif, sniffing over a sandwich found on the road, or dumpster-diving for pizza crusts.
A picture of a muscled hunk embracing a knee-buckling waif is embarrassing to hold up to other people's gaze in an airliner or your firm's office.
And of course a pasty-faced Victorian waif.
Then, too, there was the mute appeal of this wee waif alone and unloved in the midst of the horrors of the savage jungle.
The concept of gracility had taken over, causing young women to seek after the slender figure of a tubercular, anemic, chlorositic waif.
The sexy waif was spotted by the diary's South American spies downing a few Bellinis at a Buenos Aires bar last week after strutting her stuff on the local catwalk.
Not all of the girls in my Guide Company were poor little rich girls. Mandy was a poor little poor girl, a mousy waif who lived out Thika Road, far from Muthaiga.

Meanwhile we has a good chance to inspect this waif that's been sort of wished on us.
I got a picture of a nubile waif, too freakish to fit where she'd been raised.
He appeared to be singularly innocent and child-like for such an uncared-for waif.
Sitting in the sheets, I turned over in my mind all that this waif had said.
When he took refuge in the Vatican he must have been clinging to some waif and stray of hope.
Edwin said she should be called waif, and waif she was ever after called in that house.
Mrs. Barry bit her lip and did not love the waif the more that she had been able to defend her.
Understand, I am not censuring you for being a nameless waif.
My husband told me all about your help and your kindness to our waif.
I have become a rover and a waif, and I feel as lighthearted as a boy.
But the spare room was out of the question for such a stray waif, so there remained only the east gable room.
My waif was curled up in my kimono, feeding my fan-tailed goldfish.
Was this little alien waif to be made a catspaw for her revenge?

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