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Meanings of step-children in English

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Usage of step-children in English
1
He is survived by his wife, Alice, his four children and five step-children.
Rock and Ice Magazine
2
Hereafter, madame, for the sake of our step-children, be more circumspect.
Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica
3
England gives her step-children the impression that they have seen it all before!
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
4
I suppose one would not mind eating one's step-children, though-wouldone?
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel
5
I can't realize you are married and have three step-children.
A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill
6
No; Emily might spoil step-children if she had them, but she could not be unkind.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel
7
My form is not my step-children's, but I try to moderate my remarks about women.
Lister's Great Adventure
8
One way to keep step-children's affection is to talk to them often and reverently of their own mother.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
9
Now she tries to encourage the young people in her life, including her four brilliant step-children, to join her.
Independent.ie
10
Fathers and mothers will be seen to take much more delight in their step-children then in their own children.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2
11
The SB advisers are still treated like barely tolerated step-children. (Additional reporting by Muralikumar Anantharaman in Boston)
Reuters
12
God has not any step-children.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
13
She having once won him to Paris, held him there life-long, and kept her step-children at a safe distance.
Malbone: An Oldport Romance
14
No wonder the poor child dwindled and pined among 'the flaunts and jeers and most unkindly looks' of her step-children.
Uncle Max
15
Tomlinson's widow and nine children and step-children gasped and walked out of the public gallery weeping when the verdict was announced.
The Guardian
16
Very often the legal wife has no children, or only daughters, while quite a little troop of step-children play about her house.
Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond
Step-children through the time