Foundlings [noun]

It is true that the parents so provided think more of the twenty-five francs than they do of the foundling.

The little blue placard hung over the cot, as in the foundling hospitals, states the child's nationality: "Moldo, Wallachian."

The Foundling Hospital is another of the public institution of which the people are justly proud.

Much in the same way many a modern maiden places her shame-covered infant in the turn-table of a foundling institution.

Perhaps he himself had been a foundling laid on the doorstep long ago, belonging neither to his mother nor to anyone else.

The Foundling had become quite a pet charity with Parliament and people.

Who picked you out of the gutter, miss, and brought you up and fed you, when you would otherwise have gone to the foundling?

To such we leave them, and follow where the author leads us, to his next resource, the Foundling Hospital.

And then, as he thought of his own condition—that of a mere poor-house foundling—his eyes grew moist.

Certain funds, for instance, may have been set apart as a foundation for a foundling asylum or a retreat for invalids.