waif and stray造句

• He was architect to the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society and to the Governesses'Benevolent Institution.
• The first pictures to emerge in the early eighties were populated by the waifs and strays of pre Canary Wharf London.
• The house was sold again in 1944, to the Church of England Incorporated Society for Providing Homes for Waifs and Strays.
• In 1885, The Standon Home was established as the only second boy's home in the Waifs and Strays'Society.
• The only clean-cut people around, apart from the tourists, are Scientologists offering free personality tests to local waifs and strays.
• In addition to the deer they raise for venison, they also take in waifs and strays who need to be hand-raised.
• Dot Cotton ( June Brown ), who often attracts waifs and strays, looks after the child when Disa won't or can't.
• A grant of waif and stray permitted the landowner to take ownership of such goods or animals if they remained unclaimed after a set period of time.
• Ballard's second full-length collection of poetry, " Waifs and Strays ", was nominated for a " California Book Award.
• ""'Waifs and Strays " "'is an Ian McNabb album of previously unreleased archival material recorded between 1993 and 2000.
• In later centuries, the expression " waifs and strays " came to be used as metaphors for  and ultimately became synonymous with  abandoned or neglected children.
• A brief, but similar version was published in the late 19th century, within a collection of Argyllshire traditions titled " Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition ".
• Lorenzo Sears, for example, who wrote of Hay in 1915, called " The Bread-Winners " one of several " waifs and strays " of Hay's literary career.
• On 1 September 1928, Daw Tee Tee founded Home for Waifs and Strays, an orphanage and school for destitute boys on 114 Inya Road in Rangoon, on land owned by businessman U Ba Oh.
• The book was first published in 2011 by City Lights and is part of the City Lights Spotlight Series . " Waifs and Strays " was a finalist for the " California Book Award.
• It was known as the Inebriates Reformatory but it seems to have rapidly become a dumping ground for orphans, waifs and strays for whom society could find no other place and eventually it became a mental hospital.
• He built and founded the Jeffie Bainbridge Home for Waifs and Strays at the corner of Norfolk Street and Surrey Street in Sheffield in memory of his wife, the building being opened by the Duke and Duchess of Portland.
• Clutterbuck took up residence in 1903 with eight children in an old hut and bark roofed barn which she named The League of Charity Homes for Waifs and Stray Babies and which was later expanded to become Parkerville Children's Home.
• Another magazine reports on a lecture of the exploits of Captain Hill ( Mrs Browne s son-in-law ) as a secret agent in Russia; yet another relates the participation by girls at the  Waifs and Strays Bazaar at Eastbourne town hall.
• Many other songs use the word " waif " to romanticize street children and runaways, as in the Marc Almond song " Waifs and Strays ", or the Steely Dan song " Janie Runaway ", which describes the title character as being the " wonderwaif of Gramercy Park ".