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At my school, so many of the children were orphans.

Some are orphans, and many more lost either a mother or a father.

Patients, students and orphans have been left to make do as best they can.

I too am an orphan and have been for more than 20 years.

He was a good man, who thought only about the orphans and their needs.

You should have given up a long time ago, orphans.

She became an orphan when her mother died in 1817.

She found only one orphan boy who had no father to pay her.

I think we had about 1,700 orphans in the end.

One thing led to another and before long we had four orphans.

And now she was an orphan, as he had once been.

He was half an orphan, no matter what his mother said.

Can you tell me what has become of the orphan?

Used to go on about her being an orphan and alone in the world.

He became an orphan from mother's side at a very young age.

But the government does little to help orphans and other children in need.

At the age of 8, he lost his father and became an orphan.

The couple have two children and also care for four orphans.

My children were lost to me, and now I felt like an orphan as well.

She was wrong, of course, his family had come after the orphans.

She became an orphan at an early age when her parents died in 1668 and 1669.

Both parents died young and she became an orphan in 1917 at the age of 16.

What they also have in common is that all are orphans.

Soon after that, her mother died and she became an orphan.

But it was very much an orphan in the park.

Most people think of 'orphan' as only describing a child.

Frances Guthrie was simply described as 'orphan'.

In 1999 EU legislation was adopted with a view to encouraging research into the development of 'orphan' drugs for the treatment of rare diseases.

They will probably try to avoid 'orphan' wards, i.e. small sections of one town or county finding themselves in a seat completely dominated by another area.

Clearly, therefore, such intervention only becomes necessary in the case of what are known as 'orphan' or 'public' sites, or in the event that the operator fails to act.

Therefore many SPEs are set up as 'orphan' companies with their shares settled on charitable trust and with professional directors provided by an administration company to ensure that there is no connection with the sponsor.

The ninth of its ten points simply states: "FIAF supports efforts to clarify the legal status of 'orphan' motion pictures and related promotional and historical materials for the purpose of preservation and public access."

Chris had not found it easy to accept her unwanted role as 'orphan', and many times during those early days she had retreated to her bedroom to indulge in secret tears when Natalie had taunted her about her orphaned status.

From the beginning, Brooklin Models specialized in models of cars not generally produced by other manufacturers, including cars produced by smaller 'independent' marques (e.g., Studebaker and Hudson) and 'orphan' marques (e.g., Edsel and DeSoto).

However, there are an increasing number of 'orphan' guides without any known RNA targets, which suggests that there might be more proteins or transcripts involved in rRNA than previously and/or that some snoRNAs have different functions not concerning rRNA.

The term refers to those items of equipment that are already in circulation, some of them unbranded or 'orphan' products, the origins of which are unknown. They may have come from bankrupted companies or from retail giants which put them on the market just before Christmas to make life difficult for smaller traders.

Several million other children will be orphaned by the disease.

But for children orphaned very young, this makes it difficult to find out their family history.

It might help them later to speak to one who had also been orphaned as a child.

After being orphaned at age 12, she was raised by her older sister.

It was enough to ruin the girl, who had been orphaned not long before.

But there was one girl of my own age who had been orphaned like me and with whom I identified myself.

"You don't want to start a movie and have it be orphaned by another administration."

The man had been orphaned at an early age, without brothers or sisters.

All of them have been orphaned during a war.

It comes from being orphaned at an early age.

Henderson, whose Indian name is unknown, had been orphaned as a child.

She was nine years old, he twenty-one when an accident orphaned them.

Little is known about her early life; she is said to have been orphaned at a young age.

Having been orphaned at a young age, she has been raised by close friends of her parents.

Anything to save her if she has been orphaned in this quadrant of space.

She'd been orphaned as a young child, she explained.

They were in grief, many had been orphaned themselves.

Thoughtfully she added, "That probably comes from being orphaned so young.

This was the man who'd orphaned her; why not enjoy his superstitious fear?

No, he had orphaned her and stolen her away as she believed.

Sent to live with his grandmother after being orphaned following his father's death.

Earth had betrayed us, orphaned us: what else was there to do?

Children who have been orphaned by both parents.

After being orphaned at the age of eleven, he moved to eastern Tennessee in 1787 to live with relatives.

Most of the primates in her care have been orphaned after their mothers were shot by humans.