1 His property was confiscated; his child became an orphan and a beggar.
2 They were fond of the sweet orphan.
3 This lady was one of my nearest relations, an orphan from her infancy, and under the guardianship of my father.
4 She was an orphan like myself; like me, too, had been brought up by hand.
5 He told me that he would look about him for such an orphan child.
6 I had already broken out into a desolate cry, and felt an orphan in the wide world.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY 7 Alexey Alexandrovitch grew up an orphan.
8 If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder.
9 The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities.
10 Noah was a charity-boy, but not a workhouse orphan.
11 But, now that fortune had cast in his way a nameless orphan, at whom even the meanest could point the finger of scorn, he retorted on him with interest.
12 You say you are an orphan, without a friend in the world; all the inquiries I have been able to make, confirm the statement.
13 I have it from the same source that you are both an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 14 I had come to believe that he was an orphan with no relatives living, but one day, to my very great surprise, he began to talk to me about his brother.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter 15 Over the path of the poor orphan child.