There never has been a barricade erected that had not gamins behind it, boys of fourteen, fighting as coolly and steadily as grizzled veterans of sixty.
The Parisian gamins are alike wherever you see them, for they all come from one stock, and are all brought up in one way.
When a child, playing and fighting with gamins in the street, dirt disguised her.
The gaminsin the half-circle became violently agitated.
Tattered gamins on the right made a furious assault on the gravel heap.
In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine is.
The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each other are very various.
The St. Petersburg street-gamins have a way of crying out, "Nachel li?
A crowd of gamins gaze up at him with admiring eyes.
My stock of slang consisted of expressions taken from dictionaries and acquired in association with gamins of the street, and I was naive enough to think that it would suffice for companionship with the regular tramps.
One of the immense fountains afforded the gamins a place of shelter.
They assailed him with a shower of groans, it is said, and some of the gamins flung pebbles at his gates.
Thackeray, in his frank, open way, acknowledged his delight at being recognized by street gamins as the author of "Vanity Fair.
When the gamins in Paris jeered him as to his dress, he closed his hands and would have flown at them with his fists after the manner of his countrymen had he not put strong restraint on himself.
Following the march, or keeping up with it along its flanks, trooped the gamins of the town, enviously studying the colorful uniforms.
And up and down the whole line, a baker's dozen of streets gamins skirmished on the lookout for some adult to whom they might attach themselves for the time being.
Though the boys stalked in and out the winding, bush-beset trail, their search startled only nervous-tailed squirrels and dozens of the feathered gamins which had so sorely puzzled the two schoolmams.
The elements that constitute the consideration of gaminsamong one another are very varied.
Among the gamins a memorable accident is highly esteemed, and a lad attains the summit of consideration if he give himself a deep cut "to the bone.
Street gamins were howling, and idle slaves and hucksters were pouring forth volleys of taunts and derision at some luckless wight.
The old slave was being assailed by a mob of street gamins and low pedlers who saw in the contents of the hamper so much fair plunder.
Fashion reigns supreme among the gamins of the East as well as among the ladies of the West.
In comparison, the "Boeuf Gras," which annually sends the gamins of Paris insane, is really a tasteful and refined exhibition.
They laughed in mockery and soon organized a big meeting at the nagan hushun to discuss letting the mob and gamins loose on the town.
These coolies and gamins impertinently stopped and searched people right on the streets and sought to provoke fights that would allow them to take anything they wanted.
After destroying the Chinese gamins who had killed the local Commandant, he had returned via Van Kure.
As you stand bargaining with them while they sit cross-legged in their open shop front, they stop to call your attention to one or other of the innumerable gamins who infest the narrow thoroughfares of the bazaar, begging for alms.
On the piers which jut out into the rivers on all sides of the city, any one can see troupes of gamins every warm, pleasant day.
Only too soon we learned that this is not Burgundy, but a pocket edition of Switzerland, a tourist resort, where the hotel is more expensive, and the gamins hail you with cries of "Oh!
The Colonel lifted his hat, and rode back to see what the gamins were about.
You described all his sons, including, no doubt, ce cher petit Joinville, in terms of resentful contempt, as so many plausible gamins whom Robert Macaire was training to cheat the public in the interest of the family firm.
The majority were ragged boys, the gamins of Paris, commingled with several women of no reputable appearance, some dingily, some gaudily apparelled.
Stalls of fruit and oranges lined the road, and round them the gamins chased each other merrily.
Many yelled and foamed at the lips, which redoubled the joy of the gamins who had come up like a cloud of flies settling upon wounds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gamins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
