The old lady took pity on the orphan kittens.
It's the latest in a long line of orphan literature. There's the English boarding school.
The newspaper scoop of the day was an image of one particularly scarred orphan being washed three times to get rid of the scent of the city sewers.
Ordinarily, a man who would callously let a woman die and orphan her children would be called a monster; this should not change just because he is a cleric.
Ten are for rare or “orphan” diseases, which frequently lack any therapy because of the small number of patients with the condition, such as a treatment for hereditary angioedema;
The orphan was consigned to her uncle's care.
Many parasitic, tropical, and "orphan" diseases are infrequent in the developed world, the primary source of revenue for medicines manufacturers.
Aloma is an orphan who teaches piano at a mountain mission school; Orren is a “college farm boy” who glances at her sideways and “she thought that was wicked and could not help but like it.”
Last year, on the30 th anniversary of an earthquake that killed perhaps600,000 people in Tangshan, near Beijing, the official press reported( approvingly) that a quake orphan surnamed Party had just joined the party and would not dream of changing her name to the one she was born with.
She was left an orphan and a poor peasant woman adopted her.
Abandoned by their mother after builders disturbed their den when they were just a few days old, these orphan fox cubs snuggle up to a Basil Brush cuddly toy instead.
Some orphan crops cannot be grown from seeds.
He later recalled that after growing up in Iowa as a Quaker orphan, he was 10 years old before he realized he could do something for the sheer joy of it without offending God.
This month, writer Charles Siebert and photographer Michael Nichols explore Daphne's orphan elephant rehabilitation center, the Nairobi nursery of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
The boy became an orphan at six.
After all, my hate for my father was not so great and urgent as my hate for the orphan home.
