Foundling

(noun.) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown.

手打:温迪

• All the bells of Sabbath were ringing, and she followed them until she came to the Foundling Church, into which she went. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• If Plato's 'pen' was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• So one day, five or six years ago now, when we took Pet to church at the Foundling--you have heard of the Foundling Hospital in London? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities, the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I shan't leave my money to be poured down the sink, and I shan't leave it to foundlings from Africay. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• All the children born in his state are foundlings. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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