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Example sentences for "ragamuffins"

Lexicographically close words:
raftsman; raftsmen; rag; raga; ragamuffin; ragan; rage; raged; rageful; rageing
  1. For this precious commodity, selected I should conceive from the most consummate ragamuffins on the road, we were indebted to Mons.

  2. With a natural aversion to every thing noble, these ragamuffins directed their outrages particularly against the statue of the founder of the church, whose grim black trunk stands in the vestibule, deprived of its head.

  3. There is nothing intrinsically wrong about "pitch and toss," only the fact that ragamuffins play it.

  4. He went straight from the railway terminus to the quiet tavern upon the first floor of which the Ragamuffins had their place of rendezvous.

  5. You had better address the message to me at Rancy's, Covent Garden; the house where the Ragamuffins have their rooms, you know, dear.

  6. Thick lay the snow upon the housetops; "thick and slab" the greasy slush upon the pavements of crowded thoroughfares; merry the rogues and ragamuffins of the great city.

  7. So Mr. Burkham had gradually melted into the dimness of Bloomsbury, and haunted the club-room of the Ragamuffins no more.

  8. Enter the brass band of the neighbouring village, (the bandsmen being boys), which plays a selection of airs, and sends a few of the smaller ragamuffins to sleep.

  9. Some of the boldest of the ragamuffins came to his relief when they realized how hard it was going with him, and that he was in the hands of only one small boy.

  10. There he found the great pirate established at an ordinary, with a little court of ragamuffins and swashbucklers gathered about him, all talking very loud, and drinking healths in raw rum as though it were sugared water.

  11. The disposed army of ragamuffins put the Hessians to rout!

  12. Will and Geordie were sprawling on the sofa, deep in the adventures of the scapegraces and ragamuffins whose histories are now the fashion.

  13. A pair of young ragamuffins who'll pull the house about my ears.

  14. Forward, and ring loud, so that those ragamuffins may hear you, and be notified of our approach.

  15. And addressing his two acolytes over his shoulder, La Montagne added, pointing with the tip of his cane at those whom he was referring to: "Are not these the ragamuffins whom you are looking for?

  16. Before the shuffling feet of the ragamuffins hurrying homeward had turned the corner, the last mouthful of the newsboy's supper was smothered in a yell of "Extree!

  17. The quarter-deck was crowded by a set of ragamuffins whose appearance beggared every previous description, and among whom I sought in vain for some one who looked like a gentleman.

  18. From that moment, on the few occasions when she went out, she no longer even turned if the ragamuffins of the Faubourg followed her, crying: "Hey!

  19. The Aire Saint-Mittre thus serves as a recreation ground, where for more than a quarter of a century all the little suburban ragamuffins have been in the habit of wearing out the seats of their breeches.

  20. Would you hand him over to a pack of cowardly civilians, that shake in their shoes till they wear the soles out, with trembling at the threats of the ragamuffins he belongs to?

  21. When we go out o' doors, such a set of ragamuffins comes a-shouting after us, "Gordon forever!

  22. Such a preliminary liquidation with the heads of a caravan is ever indispensable, for, without their assistance, it would be out of the question to traffic with the ragamuffins who hang on the skirts of opulent chieftains.

  23. The answer to my message was an illustration of the character and insolence of the ragamuffins with whom I had to deal.

  24. If their rifles and cartridge-belts had been taken away from them they would have looked like a horde of dirty Cuban beggars and ragamuffins on the tramp.

  25. I do not mean to say, or even to suggest, that these ragamuffins were not brave men and good soldiers.

  26. But some, who should have known better, did give the Rogues Halfpence and encourage them in a show of Bigotry; albeit the young Ragamuffins know not what it do mean, and care only for the Frolick and Halfpence.

  27. Headed by Polichinelle banging his great drum and Pierrot blowing his trumpet, they set out, and were duly passed in review by the ragamuffins drawn up in files to enjoy so much of the spectacle as was to be obtained for nothing.

  28. He no longer consorted with the ragamuffins of the street but selected for his friends men of standing and integrity.

  29. He spends his time as thou didst find him, playing with ragamuffins in the street, and is never at home except at meal times.

  30. I have led my ragamuffins where they are well peppered.

  31. The magnificent and picturesque town car with its gaudy ragamuffins swayed by in train of its diminutive mule.

  32. Various other gaudy ragamuffins lounged largely and picturesquely on the widely spaced benches.

  33. Other ten-year-old ragamuffins tried to call our attention to some sort of sleight-of-hand with poor downy little chickens.

  34. As they filed in, followed by a mob of ragamuffins who had seen the show a dozen times or more without apparent diminution of enjoyment, the stage manager arranged the scenery and green-room, which consisted of a folding screen.

  35. Sometimes, when you have ceased to think about a carromata, one of these small ragamuffins will pursue you, with a sheepish-looking coachman and disreputable vehicle in tow.

  36. These ragamuffins were perfect masters of natural history.

  37. The company was as complete a specimen of ragamuffins as were ever congregated together.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ragamuffins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.