With the exception of a saintly matron, called Mama Sunshine, who collects waifs and strays, grown-ups are not to be trusted. |
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It will also act as a staging post for medical care and feeding for some of Kiev's 10,000 homeless waifs and strays. |
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Whether one prefers pretty boys to rugged types, or strong-featured women to doe-eyed waifs, may reveal more about a person than we realize. |
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I used to pick up all sorts of collarless waifs and strays from our housing estate in Ireland. |
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In an era of waifs and buffed bodies, the full-figured beauties in Rubens's works have a graceful nobility. |
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Winter for Kiev's waifs and strays is a cold, bleak daily battle for survival. |
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Experts estimate that China has at least 150,000 waifs between the ages of 10 and 15 wandering its streets. |
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Tavistock Street already has a number of problems which seem to be exacerbated by a policy of housing the waifs and strays of the borough nearby. |
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It was hard to believe this modest little place was charity shop Barnardo's, once associated with sale of second-hand items to raise funds for waifs and orphans. |
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His pilgrimage is dogged by calamity, as oxen sicken and die, the cart carrying the bell catches fire, and waifs and strays join his tattered procession. |
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War orphans made a more sentimental appeal to the conscience than did the waifs of the 'undeserving poor' or the bastards of 'immoral' women. |
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Shortly after his arrival in London, the young medical student came across the city's homeless waifs sleeping in its alleys and on its rooftops. |
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The proprietor of the cinema has no objection to his auditorium being used by the waifs as a kind of dormitory. |
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She was an unconventional model, unusually short and especially thin, who launched the era of the waifs and heroin chic. |
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Set beside muscle-bound hunks such as Mark McGwire, the home-run-smashing St Louis Cardinal, Messrs Shinjo and Suzuki look like waifs. |
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Yet of late some of the world's biggest banks have been huddling together like waifs in a storm. |
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Artful Dodgers are on every street corner waiting for poor orphaned waifs. |
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Your willingness to help others is admirable, but unless you're a registered charity you'd best contain your habit of taking in waifs and offering them a hot bath and food. |
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Dutton's Epoch label seems to be turning into a home for British music's foundlings, but Cyril Scott is one of the more deserving of those waifs and strays. |
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The waifs, strays, deodands, goods of felons and fugitives, etc., within the hundred belonged to the lord if the bailiff of the hundred seized them first. |
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Educated at Eton at a time when England was in a ferment of religious revivalism, Hogg took a position in a tea business in a poor section of London and was moved to sympathy for the waifs playing in nearby streets. |
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Indeed, the history of sail training can be said to have begun on St Valentine's day, 1866, at a London dinner thrown for waifs and strays by the Earl of Shaftesbury, a reforming Victorian and patron of the Ragged Schools. |
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The only clean-cut people around, apart from the tourists, are Scientologists offering free personality tests to local waifs and strays. The boulevard has suffered some bad luck in recent years. |
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The proceeds are given to an institution for waifs, which is supported exclusively by the Sikh, and to which children, numbering at times as many as 300, are admitted irrespective of their faith. |
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Tim Uncle' as he is known to his co-workers and charges, spends his time rescuing waifs and strays from the pitiless streets of the Bengali slumopolis. |
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I was a pussyfoot, an artful dodger, sidestepping abandoned children, waifs and strays, foundlings, castaways, and junk-people. |
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If you don't look after our children, they will turn into ignorance and want, the two ideas, like thuggishness and greed, and he personifies it in these two waifs. |
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Over the years we've rescued all sorts of waifs and strays, and now have four dogs, a cat, an eagle owl, hens, ducks, a collared dove, a canary and zebra finches. |
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I say, let those wafer-thin waifs strut their stuff, or lack of it. |
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