strays

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The same violent nights, the same clammy mornings, the same long afternoons when the children became estrays, moles in the light of day.

From Time Magazine Archive

As it sank still lower, it shot out long, luminous rays, diverging fan-like across the plain, as if, in the boy's excited fancy, it too were searching for the lost estrays.

From A Waif of the Plains by Harte, Bret

So simple, so obvious was it that these three expatriates, these waifs and estrays, banded together against a common poverty, a common loneliness, should share without question whatever was theirs to divide.

From The Street of Seven Stars by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

However, the thieves paid scant regard to the estrays nor cared they to secure them, but only wondered by what means they had wandered so far from the town.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

There were other odd estrays going about, who were either well known, or could account for them selves.

From A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) by Larcom, Lucy