I recall her dimly, a slattern creature in a loose gown and bare feet, wife of the storekeeper and wagoner, with a swarm of urchins about her.
And I remember a battle with one of theseurchins in the briers, an affair which did not add to the love of their family for ours.
Hal was deeply touched, and took her in his arms again and kissed her tenderly under the umbrella, in the presence of the wondering stares of several urchins with coal-smutted faces.
These urchins came from a score of nations of Southern Europe and Asia; there were flat-faced Tartars and swarthy Greeks and shrewd-eyed little Japanese.
The various engravers, who have amused themselves by diversifying my face for the public, having all, with great unanimity, agreed in giving prominence to this point, I suppose the urchins thought they were on safe ground there.
I have seen many a group of ragged urchinsin the streets and closes with all the high coloring of Rubens, and all his fulness of outline.
The little urchins did not cease their plaguing; it amused them that the old chap could not hold his head quiet, and they aimed at his eyes and nostrils.
She sat on a heap of frightfully stained mattresses, that children must have lain on, and looked down at the urchins who were tossing the empty bottle to one another.
Urchins Shall, for that vast of night that they may work, All exercise on thee.
For the use ofurchins in similar associations we may quote "Merry Wives of Windsor" (iv.
As soon as the boat grates on the shallows, two small bare-legged urchins rush forward to help Miss Jocelyn to land.
It was with a strange pang at her heart that Mary now submitted to the loving, if rather boisterous, caresses of the urchins who climbed her lap and clung around her neck.
This was obviously done to annoy me, so I sent the urchins about their business.
It would then accompany him the whole day in his walks and strut behind him in the most frequented streets, unmindful of the screams of the urchins by whom the strange pair were often followed.
Then the urchins gather on the wall which hedges in the garden on the fourth side of the square and chatter, chatter, chatter, about all the things that French boys chatter about.
The two urchins were marching us through street after street, one of them whistling that pleasing tune, Le lendemain elle était souriante.
The urchins amused each other and us by capers on the way.
And the bright gay note of this commercial eagerness, this scramble of hawkers, was supplied by the urchins who rushed about through the crowd, crying the "Journal de la Grotte.
They reminded one of the childish drawings which street urchins scrawl upon blank walls.
Wretched urchins came to play there, workmen without work slept in the sunshine, and women after washing ragged linen spread it out to dry upon the stones.
Howell was teaching the twelve or fourteen urchins a new hymn-tune, singing it now alone, now with them, now listening with little gestures of encouragement and nods of pleasure as their voices rose.
The tune came to an end, and he put his leaflet of printed words into his pocket and shepherded the row of urchins into position with movements of his hands.
Professor Loeb has fertilized the eggs of sea-urchins by artificial means.
Three nights have I now tarried here, and three several times have I assembled the urchins to join in sacred song; and as often have they responded to my efforts with whoopings and howlings that have chilled my soul!
So Nan obeyed and reluctantly handed over to one of the eager street urchins the handsome bag which contained, among other things, Mrs. Bragley's papers.
Hence the urchins in these far-away villages often ran at the heels of Paddy's horse, yelling.
A crowd gathered miraculously and cheered on this spectacle; women appeared at all the windows; urchins hooted; mongrel dogs barked.
Singing songs and pursued by urchins throwing stones, they carry the puppet to the village boundary, where they tear it in pieces.
Sometimes the figure is stuffed with sweets, dried fruits, and halfpence, for which the street urchins scramble when the puppet is bisected.
They went there every day, impelled thereto by an animal taste for blood, the cruel instinct ofurchins who find amusement in the sight of severed heads.
Here I found one of the audaciousurchins flourishing a spear ten times as big as himself, menacing me with it.
I observe that the little urchinsof this Saharan School use sand in their first efforts to write.
In Bordeaux, workmen and mechanics, small urchins and sailors from the quays, fringed the more aristocratic circle of chairs, and listened as intently and as seriously as a Thomas audience at home.
In the foreground stands the temporarily dismantled breack, begirt with awed urchinsand venerable Common Councilmen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "urchins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
