| In an era of waifs and buffed bodies, the full-figured beauties in Rubens's works have a graceful nobility. |
| Experts estimate that China has at least 150,000 waifs between the ages of 10 and 15 wandering its streets. |
| Shortly after his arrival in London, the young medical student came across the city's homeless waifs sleeping in its alleys and on its rooftops. |
| I used to pick up all sorts of collarless waifs and strays from our housing estate in Ireland. |
| Yet of late some of the world's biggest banks have been huddling together like waifs in a storm. |
| With the exception of a saintly matron, called Mama Sunshine, who collects waifs and strays, grown-ups are not to be trusted. |
