foundling
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The tale of the 18th-century foundling who grows up to be very popular with the ladies may have topped 1,000 pages in its original form, but McLeod found this four-episode adaptation "energetic and fast-paced."
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2023
The back is inscribed, in Dutch, “My burden is heavy, goodbye my dear Femke, Born 1st September 1795,” by a mother who, two centuries, ago abandoned her baby as a foundling.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023
In his many and widely read novels, Dickens sympathetically depicted the hardscrabble lives of poor, working-class, and middle-class urban dwellers, setting scenes in foundling homes, prisons, impoverished neighborhoods, and dark city streets.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Clark, a foundling, born Kal-El, famous as Superman, has lost his memory more than once and regularly comes face to face with, and sometimes fist to fist with, perverse reflections or imitations of himself.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2021
It was a foundling who finally tamed the zeros and infinities in calculus and rid mathematics of its mysticism.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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