How can a gentleman, like myself, fail to respond to a homeless waif?

His best-known play was "Birdbath," a late-night dialogue between a homeless waif and a prodigal poet.

How can I know that aversion to death is not like a homeless waif who does not know where to return?

From then on it was impossible for Don to see Sylvie as a homeless waif.

The archives hold copies of a newsletter he published about the hard-knock lives of homeless waifs.

DeMille called Coghlan "the perfect example of a homeless waif," and signed the boy to a long-term contract in 1926.

Poor homeless waifs that, nonetheless, were carrying the flag.

If a boat could look like a homeless waif, the 133-foot schooner Coronet is a ragamuffin of the high seas.

"The water is as empty as a homeless waif's piggy bank."

Many homeless waifs from the streets of London were to be sent to the New World as laborers.