Sentence examples for destitute child from inspiring English sources

That third line's cool understatement does a piercing job of conveying the general, automatic indifference to a destitute child.

Like David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and other of the great novelist-qua-social-critic's orphaned and destitute child heroes, Des provides a foil for the low company he keeps.

"When I see a destitute child on the road, I feel like I'm seeing it for the first time in my life, my stomach turns," said Mr. Devaraj, adding that not everyone feels that way in India.

Mr. Nicholson, playing Warren Schmidt, a newly retired insurance actuary who struggles with long-submerged feelings, pours out his heart to the destitute child in long letters that he sends to a remote village in a faraway place.

When a boy died after being turned away (the home was full), the policy was instituted that 'No Destitute Child Ever Refused Admission'.

Would pictures of destitute children and abandoned mothers punctuate these protests?

At age 7, he was sent away to a home for orphans and destitute children until he was 11.

Syrie's evangelical father was the Barnardo of the Dr. Barnardo's Homes for destitute children, her apparently queenly mother the daughter of a Lloyd's underwriter.

They said a proposed "residence test", limiting legal aid to people who have lived in Britain for a year, could disqualify destitute children and victims of trafficking.

By means of trade classes and a combination of education and religious work, Hogg hoped to reconstruct the lives of destitute children.

He then decided to devote the rest of his life to helping destitute children, and his charity survives to this day.