raggamuffin

• “He's a little bit of a raggamuffin, but I'm sure that doesn't take away the validity of his expertise.”

  Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives

• “I find it only humorous, now, to look back on ray when he was a pesky kid and a raggamuffin selling newspapers on a street corner a mile from where I live, and see what a considerate, cultured individual he has blossomed into.”

  Antiquarian Weird Tales: A Ray Bradbury Pericope, and an Ackerman Anecdote

• “While walking down the street I heard, "Hey, raggamuffin!”

  What the $&^% Did He Call Me?

• “Sadly there is still no sign of the young raggamuffin.”

  Ms Widdy is 60: Iain "Scoop" Dale Missing in Medway

• “They live in the world as strangers in their own house; they are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door, whilst shameless rioters shouted in the hall and ask, who brought the raggamuffin here?”

  Uncollected Prose

• “As I was driving to my exercise class yes, I realize the hypocrasy in that sentence last week, looking like a raggamuffin, I caught a glimpse of a familiar face as I was waiting to make a left.”

  The Ghost in the Machine

• “He is one of the original members of [insert the newest nyc band listed in rolling stone] chad is ignoring the vintages beautifully, more interested in adding up the worth of this raggamuffin collection of records and tapes.”

  i-claudius Diary Entry

• “His father had money; and Jack's great pride was to be complimented by his raggamuffin companions as the cook of the game.”

  Vice in its Proper Shape Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition.

• “With these he could pull and hawl and romp and tear as long as he pleased; and the more active he became in this raggamuffin species of diversion, the more they relished his company.”

  Vice in its Proper Shape Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition.

• “May not {421} _berefellarius_, the dirty raggamuffin with tattered clothes, be good monkish Latin for _bare-fell_ (i.e. _bare-skin_), or rather”

  Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.

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