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n. orphanage
Usage examples of "orphan asylum".
The only thing odd about them was that they were all women and I realized that many times in the Army, in the orphan asylum, at ball games I was used to seeing either all men or mostly men.
I will even tell you the name of the establishment, where I passed six years as a pupil, and two as a teacher -- Lowood Orphan Asylum, -shire: you will have heard of it, Mr.
Bob was as brave as any boy, but his retired life in an orphan asylum had not prepared him for anything like this.
Why, it was only last week I read in the paper how a man and his wife up west of the Island took a boy out of an orphan asylum and he set fire to the house at night--set it ON PURPOSE, Marilla--and nearly burnt them to a crisp in their beds.
She had been found one bitter winter morning eighteen years ago bundled up in a ragged old blanket on the hearthstone in the parlor of the Clinton Orphan Asylum.
Said you and your sister were adopting her from an orphan asylum and that you would be along for her presently.
He hadn't stayed long in that hole of an orphan asylum where they'd put him after his mum had died of consumption.
It would be comparatively an easy matter for them to lose it in some way-not necessarily kill it-have it adopted in some orphan asylum, place it anywhere to hide its identity.
On Wednesday evening a grand display of fireworks took place on the grounds of the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, Bow-road, in aid of the funds of the institution.
Hanging on to his beer schooner, but swallowing all the free lunch in his mouth, Longarm followed the swamper back towards the crappers, tipped a whole dime once he'd been shown the right door, and went on in to find himself staring down in Some confusion at the severely uniformed Miss Morgana Floyd, head matron of the orphan asylum out Arvada way.
He might become a State Kid (he thought that meant you had to go live with farmers who made you work from sunup to sunset), or he might be sent to the Bangor Orphan Asylum.