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With the exception of a saintly matron, called Mama Sunshine, who collects waifs and strays, grown-ups are not to be trusted.
It will also act as a staging post for medical care and feeding for some of Kiev's 10,000 homeless waifs and strays.
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.
I used to pick up all sorts of collarless waifs and strays from our housing estate in Ireland.
In an era of waifs and buffed bodies, the full-figured beauties in Rubens's works have a graceful nobility.
Winter for Kiev's waifs and strays is a cold, bleak daily battle for survival.
Experts estimate that China has at least 150,000 waifs between the ages of 10 and 15 wandering its streets.
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.
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.
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.
War orphans made a more sentimental appeal to the conscience than did the waifs of the 'undeserving poor' or the bastards of 'immoral' women.
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.
The proprietor of the cinema has no objection to his auditorium being used by the waifs as a kind of dormitory.
She was an unconventional model, unusually short and especially thin, who launched the era of the waifs and heroin chic.
Set beside muscle-bound hunks such as Mark McGwire, the home-run-smashing St Louis Cardinal, Messrs Shinjo and Suzuki look like waifs.
Yet of late some of the world's biggest banks have been huddling together like waifs in a storm.
Artful Dodgers are on every street corner waiting for poor orphaned waifs.
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.
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.
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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What became of all his waifs and strays, it might be well not to inquire too curiously.
Gradually their talk died out and drowsiness began to steal upon the eyelids of the little waifs.
The poor children there were street waifs and as wild as untamed animals.
The Elder to whose care the two waifs had been committed, led them to his waggon, where a meal was already awaiting them.
Two waifs adrift in a storm, peering into a bakery window at the cookies.
On gala days the town fires its great guns, which echo like popguns to these woods, and some waifs of martial music occasionally penetrate thus far.
So the little house was not bare, but made pleasant to their eyes by these waifs from the wreck, brought them by the tide of sympathy and good-will which soon set in.
Waifs and strays from home, from up-country, from the Pacific.
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