Given this drawback, the unlucky captain of such a craft finds it difficult to recruit a proper crew, and must often be content with green hands, or the riffraff disdained by other ships' masters.
Her crew was riffraff in a measure; men not wanted on other ships; many of foreign birth; Portuguese and Spaniards; a few Danes, and without doubt some renegade servants of King George.
My idea is that a cowardly handful of riffraff outcasts from the border have hidden in your house, more by accident than design.
Across the border they're bandits, some of them, the others just riffraff outlaws.
Riffraff of the riffraff are his friends now, same as they were here.
Of course the liberated riffraff accepted this suggestion with enthusiasm and without a dissenting voice.
I saw no likelihood of betterment for myself if I were carried off with these riffraff as one of a band of looters, murderers and outlaws, loose in the forests.
You still imagine some of this riffraff Benton gang made off with her?
This everlasting boozing, this mingling with people whom I wouldn't recognize in Wellington, being herded with the riffraff of the world.
Uncle Sydney was talking about it yesterday: he says he and some of his friends are organizing a country club, and already some of these riffraff are worming into it--people he never heard of at all!
Of course, people couldn't be expected to live forever, and it would be a good thing to have someone in charge of the Estate who wouldn't let it get to looking so rusty that riffraff dared to make fun of it.
Perhaps the riffraff living in those houses sat at the windows to watch their betters; perhaps they dared to gossip-- He uttered an exclamation, and walked rapidly toward his own front gate.
They say a lot ofriffraff come to town every year nowadays and there's other riffraff that have always lived here, and have made a little money, and act as if they owned the place.
It won't do to pick up any riffraff that may come to hand.
But what especially attracted their attention in the midst of this miscellaneous riffraff was a small cedar box, about eight inches long by six inches wide and deep.
As she passed up street, the riffraff exchanged nods and winks, but Lone Tree furnished still other champions.
There was nothing for me, and the Confederates who were with me, but the ancient label of a Democracy worn by a riffraff of opportunists, Jeffersonian principles having quite gone to seed.
It was easy to tell the old-timers from the riffraff of newcomers.
All the world had turned to California; its riffraff and offscourings as well as its true men.
I found these men riffraff of the wars, and while they have no such love for me as Cathbarr here, I think they had liefer follow me than any other leader.
The garrison was a riffraff of all the armies that had wasted Ireland, and they were fighting men fit for their work.
But Hopwood had artfully separated me from the Blacks who were in Newgate, and placed me among a stranger mob of riffraff in the Borough Clink.
In those days all our plantations, and Jamaica most notably, were full of the very Scum and Riffraff of our English towns.
From my window where I am writing I can see how insolent the attitude of this Mohammedan riffraff is becoming.
Do you imagine your riffraff are going to hold me here when I'm ready to depart!
It brought to the scene a mixed throng of the riffraff of the camp.
A throng of the riffraff of the Street swarmed in front of the building.
Nevertheless, I said to myself: 'If I clean up my property as regards this riffraff population I am possibly contributing to the fulfillment of my citizenship.
The same determination that he had in building that bridge, the same character, came out in his determination that his railroad line, so far as he could effect it, must be free of the riffraff population which was disturbing it.
So he organized a police force and therewith proceeded to take care of thatriffraff population.
The thing I had in mind to do, and have tried to do, was to clear the property intrusted to my hands of that riffraff population which has been infesting American railroads for so many years.
Do you know that, with rabbits only from the warrens of Earl Lindsay, they could feed all the riffraff of the Cinque Ports?
It was all the riffraff of the universe, having for their trade a crime.
Take shelter for yourself, and look on whilst we skin this riffraff alive.
The village tavern, servilely bearing the king's arms thinly painted over the palmetto tree of South Carolina on its swinging sign-board, was a miserable doggery, full to overflowing with a riffraff of carousing soldiery.
There were two more of the riffraff of the redoubtable ghost ranch, and two of the victims of the more skilful play, and potent doping, of the proprietors.
You call it nothing, sir, that his Majesty's Commission has been flouted for six hours past by all the riffraff of the Docks?
But the scum and the riffraff who are uppermost to-day say he handled them cruelly, and my daughter tried to persuade him from going out to-day.
He strained eyes and ears for a possible attack from the riffraff I.
It was extraordinary--the assurance and deadly intent of this riffraff gang of tramp labor-agitators.
This meeting came as a climax to four months of momentous meetings with the best and the riffraff of many nations.
Here is even a more heterogeneous native riffraff than one sees at Maison Carrée, Blida, or Boufarik.
These fumeries de kif are to all intents and purposes low-class cafés, peopled with all the nomad riffraff of the Mediterranean from Mogador to Crete.
In addition there are the brilliant variegated sails of the Italian and Maltese fishing-boats, the dhows of the Arabs, and all the miscellaneous riffraff which associates itself mysteriously with a great seaport.
