"Readopt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dangerous at their tender years; are the only considerations that startle me. By what power does it come to pass, that children who have been adopted when young among these people, can never be prevailed on to readopt European manners? Many an anxious parent I have seen last war, who at the return of the peace, went to the Indian villages where they knew their children had been carried in captivity; when to their inexpressible ...
— Letters from an American Farmer • Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
