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Usage examples of orphaned.

It was natural, afterward, that Halla and Moran continued on to Crom Hold, just as it was natural that Moran had collected a new group of children, orphaned or Shunned.

A ropy mass of neurons, interlaced with augmentations of my jugular vein and my two carotid arteries, extended from beneath my orphaned medulla and stretched across four feet of empty space before disappearing into my reopened fontanel, the whole arrangement shielded from microbial contamination by a flexible plastic tube.

But for the people who die, who are orphaned or enslavedhave you been to the hospital, sir, and talked to any of the kids Huron brought in?

He had had a strange feeling about Lala Sun when he had first encountered her as a newly orphaned young woman in this strange place some time earlier.

I realized what I had asked of this orphaned boy, exiled from his country, lamed by a wild animal, without an obol to his name.

Enveloped in a moral atmosphere at once bracing and tender from her childhood upwards, it had never occurred to her to regret that she was not only orphaned, but sisterless and brotherless as well, in the ordinary acceptation of the phrase.

Orphaned at ten, raised by the outlaw king Welch Mandell, he had become the most notorious gunfighter in the southwest.

She was turning towards the Redoute, when an idea suddenly occurred to her--an idea most natural, arising, as it did, from that instinctive cry for more than human help, that awakes in every heart on great emergencies, and appealing, moreover, to that particular class of religious sentiment which in our little orphaned Madelon had most readily responded to convent teaching.

Squeezing her eyes shut against a future-past that only her orphaned symbiont could see, Jadzia bowed her head over the tangle of their fingers, and light flashed scattershot across the surface of the pool.

Old-Bear had agreed and had commanded the survivors to burn their lodges, and then he had led them to a new location near the shore of Mother Sea where they could build lodges on uncontaminated ground, and he had taken the orphaned Longbow into his new lodge and had reared him as if he were his own son.

Lady Primrose murmured, and it was hastily passed on, that Evelyne was a poor orphaned soul and all the gels there would react the same way if the officers they danced with came home wounded.

Lady Hsin, who had dutifully invited others to see me, her orphaned grandchild.

I was Alexander Nikolaevich Belov, born in Krasnodar, orphaned at seventeen.

Angry with her as they are, stranded in Florida with their backs against the wall, newly orphaned and betrayed, the twins are beautifully composed, as still as a pair of marble nymphs.

A breeze skirled across the courtyard, reminding Rani that she was not only orphaned, but hungry as well.