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Meanings of motherless boy in English

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Usage of motherless boy in English
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A motherless boy with a discouraged father is very fortunate.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 / Little J...
2
My bed, then, was given to a little, motherless boy.
The Rim of the Desert
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I have suffered terribly for all my neglect and wrong of my motherless boy!
The Rector of St. Mark's
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God is but calling you to a better country, and He will guard your motherless boy!
Wilton School; or, Harry Campbell's Revenge
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He almost enjoyed the danger for himself: his fear was for Iberville and for the motherless boy.
The Trail of the Sword, Volume 2
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He has a little motherless boy six years old who has nobody else to take care of him.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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Come to me; you poor motherless boy, and let me take your grief and help you carry it.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
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Ulung Tiung, the motherless boy
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the L...
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And William Archer determined to make amends for his past neglect by future care and attention to his motherless boy.
The Rector of St. Mark's
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It is difficult to understand how the sternest disciplinarian, being human, could have treated his own motherless boy with such severity.
The Life of Froude
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This Girolamo Melzi had a son called Francesco, a little motherless boy, who adored the great painter with all his heart.
Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters
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How shall a man describe what passed in the mind of a childless wife, with a motherless boy in her arms!
A Rough Shaking
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The unlikely pair alight together, Simon having taken the motherless boy, David, under his wing during their time on a refugee ship.
The South African
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Between you, I think Paul's training in these two past years has been as nearly ideal as a motherless boy's could be.
Anne of Avonlea
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And the quiet night stole on, and the soft winds of June whispered over the motherless boy, weeping there alone in the churchyard.
Wilton School; or, Harry Campbell's Revenge
16
My father died in 1904, but without any message to leave me, or to my only child, Alfred, a motherless boy of ten.
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
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