He said these bummers only paid fifty cents a meal, and there was no use of anybody else paying more, if they had cheek enough to play it on the landlord.
Chicago and Milwaukee bummers could be seen at the hotels, kneeling beside their sample cases trying to pray, but they couldn't.
If the negroes told the bummers stories of cruelty they had suffered, or hostility to the Union, etc.
While we were gone--as I anticipated--nine of Wilson's bummers quietly surrounded the dwelling of Gen.
The bummers generally obliged the negroes to improvise teams, and in wagons brought their stealings into camp.
The result is that when a woman commits one sexual sin she puts hope behind her, her feet take hold on Hell, she sinks lower and lower until she becomes the shameless associate of bummers and bawds.
Next came the noble army of stragglers and bummers with the question, 'Hello, Yank, have you got any Yankee notions about you?
It was discovered, when too late for redress, that Logan had withdrawn our safeguards, taken every commanding officer with him, and had left us to the mercy of his wagon train of bummers and of negroes.
The Confederates were finally driven back, the Federals entered the town, and then the bummers came streaming through the country, leaving desolation behind them.
Such are the bummersof New York, hastily sketched.
The bummers are grouped in the corridor just below the preacher, and are called out from time to time by the keepers, as they are wanted in the court room.
But when Sherman resumed his march through South Carolina, the bummers were keener than ever.
Having authority to take provisions, the bummers were not tardy in executing their trust.
If I come to a town or village or plantation, and stop to obtain forage, I find that the infernal bummers have been there," said Kilpatrick.
Most of the people fled from the approach of the Federals and especially were the old men, who might be thought by negroes and bummers to have money concealed on their persons or premises, afraid to fall into their hands.
Evidently his approach is heard, for instantly out of the "Metropolitan" there swarms a crowd of miners, gamblers and bummers to see "what the row is.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bummers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
