This wasn't my little waif: she'd finished her shift.

"Did you really attack the officer who was disciplining your little waif?"

This unlucky little waif simply won't accept death, Ganik thought.

She had been a little waif then, in her Yorkshire homespun.

Father Tome, your little waif is no avocado at all.

No wonder she identified so instantly and protectively with this little waif.

I pictured the pale little waif and wondered what had led her to it.

That is, until Dorotea caught sight of the little waif.

She was still a girl of sixteen, a lost little waif in a world not her own.

He could also look at the pitiful little waif who was going to be forced into an unwanted marriage.