The fact that she had lost both her parents interested and pleased Dale: Orphanhood seemed to contain the embryonic germs of a mutual sympathy.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
The helplessness of Orphanhood and age, the penury and monotonous dulness of the lives of great sunken classes, the education of the young, were drawing forth the pity of the charitable.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Poor friendless beings, in a foreign land Wandering forlorn in homeless Orphanhood!
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles