ragamuffins

• Instead his army consisted of a few hundred half-clad ragamuffins, which attacked a squad of police who took refuge in a farmhouse, and easily routed the rabble. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
• Let me know what your other ragamuffins are writing, for I suppose you don't like starting too many of your vagabonds at once. —  Life of Lord Byron, With His Letters And Journals, Vol. 5
• They had expected to find the people in open rebellion, or at least, in their own phrase, organised for insurrection; but to their dismay they found only ragamuffins, as they called them, who, in joining their standard, did them infinitely more harm than good. —  Richard Lovell Edgeworth
• These four Detroit ragamuffins (including brother Scott, Dave Alexander and of course, Iggy) looked like they would be more comfortable getting drunk in the 7-11 parking lot than changing the course of popular music, but the proof is in the pudding and no record collection is complete without Raw Power (produced by a speed-addled David Bowie). —  My Old Kentucky Blog
• Angelina dresses the kids like little ragamuffins - check out —  Crabbie's Hollywood

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