"Foundling!" he said, after examining the object; "found, apparently, on the banks of the river Phlegethon."
"Monsieur le protonotare," asked Gauchère, "what do you prognosticate of this pretended foundling?"
Upon this bed of wood it was customary to expose foundlings for public charity.
Dame Aloise de Gondelaurier, a rich and noble woman, who held by the hand a pretty girl about five or six years of age, and dragged a long veil about, suspended to the golden horn of her headdress, halted as she passed the wooden bed, and gazed for a moment at the wretched creature, while her charming little daughter, Fleur-de-Lys de Gondelaurier, spelled out with her tiny, pretty finger, the permanent inscription attached to the wooden bed: "Foundlings."
The name of Beadle being out of the question, and the originator of the Institution for these poor
foundlings having been a blessed creature of the name of Coram, we gave that name to Pet's little maid.
The prayers that did begin then, and the lamentations in sackcloth and ashes, and the holy processions, none of these have ceased nor night nor day; and so the monks and the nuns and the
foundlings be all exhausted, and do hang up prayers writ upon parchment, sith that no strength is left in man to lift up voice.
56, the "
Foundling Recognition Act" which he previously filed in 2015.
Citing this oft-quoted adage, Senator Lito Lapid has revived his bill, seeking to provide a legitimate status to a
foundling or an abandoned child with unknown parents.
It is Eerie-on-Sea, a seaside resort in midwinter, and twelvish-year-old Herbie Lemon, a
foundling, runs the Lost-and-Found office at the Grand Nautilus Hotel.
'I felt so maternal towards him because he is the youngest
foundling in this film.
Based at the site of The
Foundling Hospital in London, Coram has helped vulnerable children since it gained the Royal Charter in 1739.
Douglaston Development announced that The New York
Foundling, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering children and families, has opened its 10th New York City location at the developer's Crossroads, located at 501 Southern Boulevard in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx.
Cornelia Parker has curated a wide-ranging group show that opens at the
Foundling Museum this month.
