waifs and strays
French translation: chiens perdus sans collier
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| 4 +5 | chiens perdus sans collier |
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| 4 | vies cachées |
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| 4 | des parasites, des profiteurs...des sangsues... |
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| 3 | possibilité |
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vies cachées Explanation: Je pense que c'est cela, tenant compte des explicaions ci-dessous. Hidden Lives Revealed: A Virtual Archive - Children in Care 1881 ... About 22500 children were looked after by the Waifs and Strays' Society between its foundation in 1881 - and the end of the First World War in 1918. ... www.hiddenlives.org.uk/ - 14k - 18 Jul 2005 - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from www.hiddenlives.org.uk ] A Brief History of the Waifs and Strays' Society Hidden Lives Revealed provides an intriguing encounter with children who were in the care of The Children's Society in late Victorian and early 20th Century ... www.hiddenlives.org.uk/articles/history.html - 22k - 18 Jul 2005 - Cached - Similar pages Young Immigrants to Canada (including home children) -Church of ... Church of England, Waifs and Strays Society/Children's Society. The Church of England established the Waifs and Strays Society in 1881. ... ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/ children/Organizations/cofe.html - 3k - 19 Jul 2005 - Cached - Similar pages |
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possibilité Explanation: souvent utilisé pour signifier enfants abandonnées, mais le fait que cela soit utilisé avec friends et pas young friends ou ni sans une allusion à des enfants/orphelins, et le "extended family" me font douter... semblait compter un grand nombre de déshérités (de sans famille et sans ressources) parmi ses amis waifs and strays plural noun 1. Homeless and destitute people, especially children. 2. Unclaimed articles; odds and ends But William Burke and William Hare were not hindered by these precautions. Their victims were the waifs and strays of the Old Town, people whom nobody would miss. They would be lured from the streets to their deaths and then their bodies would be sold to the medical schools. To this day nobody knows exactly how many disappeared, but the estimates at the time ran somewhere between 13 and 30. gypsies ... stories the Gypsies are doomed to be the waifs and strays of the earth. ... of both persons and a drop of blood was dropped on each half of the loaf, ... www.southernlife.org.uk/gypsies.htm A Spur for a Free Horse There are persons living down back courts, or in narrow alleys, who never wear ... Who will look after the waifs and strays, the odds and ends of humanity? ... www.spurgeon.org/s_and_t/spur.htm - 27k |
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peer agreement (net): +5chiens perdus sans collier Explanation: puisque tu aimes les idiomes -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr 52 mins (2005-07-20 23:39:06 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- ou des marginaux tout simplement. |
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