Perhaps she'll plunge into the orphanage work, or perhaps she'll go on here, gardening, playing with Buck, raising ducks-she says herself that she has never known what love means-says it really meaning it, yet as if the whole subject was a joke-a weakness!
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
Let the minister, before going into the pulpit, look over the whole field and recall what are the styles of bereavement in the congregation-whether they be widowhood, orphanage or childlessness; what are the kinds of temporal loss his people may recently have suffered-whether in health, in reputation or estate; and then get both his shoulders under these troubles, and in his prayer give one earnest and tremendous lift, and there will be no dullness, no indifference, no lack of multitudinous response.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
Delft, 11 June, 1829. Educated at an orphanage he became a tailor, travelled through France, Italy, and Switzerland, and in '61 returned to Amsterdam.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler