His father, indeed, did not give him up without a struggle, but Eliza became ever more detached from the wastrel who was her son.
He had gone about persuading himself that she was still a child, and this Austrian boy, this wastrel and dreamer, had awakened her.
The joy of the true physician, the healer, had awakened in him at the prospect of a duel with Death, and he was no longer merely the slouching, good-natured wastrel who doctored horses at the Hippodrome.
Me for the Tracts--I've learned, in fine, The Wastrel always drops his Wad!
Each generation gets a sign, But each one needs another prod From scriptures human or divine-- The Wastrel always drops his Wad!
If the Wastrel had not turned the instant he did, the ball would have missed him; as it was he turned directly into its path.
Without a word or a gesture, theWastrel turned and staggered forth, out of the orbit of these two, having been thrust into it for a single purpose already described.
I'm thinking that the Wastrel was one day a celebrated professional; and the women were partly the cause of his fall.
And here he was, but a hundred yards away, this wastrel who trailed his genius through the mud.
So, bloody but unbeaten, weak and spent but undaunted, he waited for the Wastrel to spring up.
Spurlock understood that his vantage would be temporary; the Wastrel had been knocked down, not out.
He was the beachcomber, or the old sailor with the black pearl (Ruth's tales), or the wastrel musician McClintock had described to him.
He tore it down just as the Wastrel rose, wavering slightly.
Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank you!
Suddenly theWastrel took hold of the edge and flung the table aside.
As theWastrel rushed, Spurlock sidestepped, swept the ball into his hand, set himself and threw it.
Cambridge University and owner of those other letters of attainment, was the drunken wastrel who had sunk low enough to serve as the impostor's ghost.
The alcoholic wastrel had suddenly become protagonist in the common little drama that was veering towards tragedy.
A wastrel may woo and wed a waif, surely, without many questions being asked.
The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.
Society is based on the family, and the clever wastrel can exploit this indefinitely.
True Thomas smiled above his harp, And turned his face to the naked sky, Where, blown before the wastrel wind, The thistle-down she floated by.
Twas nodding grass and naked sky, 'Twas blue above and bent below, Where, checked against the wastrel wind, The red deer belled to call the doe.
Twas bent beneath and blue above, 'Twas nodding grass and naked sky, Where ringing up the wastrel wind The eyass stooped upon the pye.
Loose her--loose her or I'll scream and rouse the village on ye for a wild gipsywastrel that ye are!
Be hanged for a murderous-looking rogue, a lousy thief, a wastrel and a hangdog knave!
I owe it to her that I was saved from becoming a little wastrel of the streets, for, as a Christian woman, she kept me at the Sunday School and took me regularly to the Congregational Church where I had been baptised.
Whatever may be said to the contrary," is his way of putting it, "I maintain that even the town wastrel takes more kindly to the land than to anything else.
Financially, it means a mouth less to feed, seeing that the intending traveller is nearly always a wastrel at home.
The traveller being a wastrel never has any himself, and the family is invariably too poor to provide it.
I am a penniless beggar--a wastrel now, without a profession, without prospects, soon to be without friends.
As little interested in the gentleman as the gentleman was in him, the wastrel contemplated the river with grimly speculative eye.
They had penetrated the fringe of a gathering composed largely of weedy youths and wastrel old men.
The Silver Mere was soon ice-veiled; the Wastrel rolled sullenly down below Kenmuir, its creeks and quiet places tented with jagged sheets of ice; while the Scaur and Muir Pike raised hoary heads against the frosty blue.
Twas bent beneath and blue above, 'Twas nodding grass and naked sky, Where, ringing up the wastrel wind, The eyas stooped upon the pie.
Twas naked sky and nodding grass, 'Twas running flood and wastrel wind, Where, checked against the open pass, The red deer belled to call the hind.
On the face of it his action in entrusting his own sister into the keeping of a knight of industry, a nameless wastrel whose very calling proclaimed him an unscrupulous adventurer, was the action of a coward and of a rogue.
Yet for all his shocking physical condition, something in the wastrel Englishman appealed to Barry as no part of the man had done the previous evening.
Their hands met, and in the grip each recognized in the other no mere wastrel of Eastern ports, but a man of energy, virility.
And now he had stood, and a drunken wastrel had cursed him and told him that he was detested by all men and that they waited for his downfall.
Drunkard and wastrel though the man was, those words could not be forgotten, would never be forgotten again.
Those were mongrel wastrel years empty of every realness, every purpose, every vantage: they filled her with a bastard wisdom.
I pushed all that away with a preoccupied hand, not as part and parcel of my wastrel living but in my assured Artist-temper.
Through him the two men, the sentimental Cockney fishmonger and the wastrel Cambridge graduate, had become friends.
It was only then that he realized fully the merits of the wastrel Phineas McPhail.
Michael, the black-haired wastrelof the flock, found voice.
And now Waddilove understood that this gay wastrel of the Metcalfs was on the edge of sickness--not of the body only, or the mind, but of the two.
I mind the time when he was skulking in and out--trying to find wastrel men who'd pay him to prove black was white in court.
The weak-kneed wastrellet fall the box with a thud upon the floor.
Young Grindley, alighting from a four-wheeled cab in Fetter Lane, marched up the court, followed by a weak-kneed wastrel staggering under the weight of a small box.
He is a bonny-like man beside your poor waff wastrel runnagate faither, Sheemus Kavannah!
But, lads, ye maun ken Alick is no a ramblin' wastrellike the rest o' us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wastrel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
