waifs and strays

And is there any record of all the waifs and strays, has anything like that ever been done or attempted?

Adopting waifs and strays wasn't his style at all.

Waifs and strays of all sorts loitered about here.

Waifs and strays, Colon had said once.

And it touched something, too, in the soul of a nation with a traditional fondness for waifs and strays.

The long and the short and the tall... waifs and strays, all of us.

Waifs and Strays is a book of poetry by Micah Ballard.

Waifs and Strays was a finalist for the California Book Award.

Oh that's the sort of people they are then are they, taken on waifs and strays are they?

"Waifs and Strays"

He also made a special study of the outcasts, the waifs and strays of industrial society the vagrants and the idiots.

I had no scruples of conscience in suffering all the waifs and strays of that conversation to float to me as freely as they would.

First published in 1860, it was later included in Waifs and Strays (2nd edition, 1876), a collection of Kennedy's writings.

Now that sanctuary was compromised, and she too would have to be offloaded with all the rest of its waifs and strays and teeming undead.

He has been described as compassionate, moral, sensitive and full of integrity; taking in waifs and strays and helping his neighbours whenever possible.

In later centuries, the expression "waifs and strays" came to be used as metaphors for - and ultimately became synonymous with - abandoned or neglected children.

It was clear enough that the children were such waifs and strays that nothing surprised them, and they readily accepted the modest hospitalities of the position.

The object for which these institutions were started was to search for and to receive waifs and strays, to feed, clothe and educate them.

The first pictures to emerge in the early eighties were populated by the waifs and strays of pre Canary Wharf London.

Waifs and Strays, Charles de Lint (Viking)

She added "Helen was a local artist renowned for her 'interesting' paintings of the locals and her tendency to take in waifs and strays.

The Murrays were billed as an attempt to return to its original form of conventional families rather than the waifs and strays it had become better known for.

A hundred and fifty thousand "waifs and strays" from poor or "broken" families were sent to Australia, Canada, and other territories between 1929 and 1967.

The union said the high fee kept waifs and strays out and insured that anybody who paid it meant business and would make the spaceways his career.