remittance-man

• “At the time of our visit it was occupied by two men; one, a young Englishman, recently arrived from South Africa -- a remittance-man, in search of novelty -- the other a grizzled forty-niner.”

  Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

• “I demurred, pleaded and finally explained that I had lost my money and had sent to New York for a remittance, I was a remittance-man.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

• “The real _dramatis personæ_ are three (for Schneider was only a sign-post pointing): Follet, the remittance-man, Stires, and French Eva.”

  The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

• “There was a young Englishman in one of the shops -- a draftsman -- who had studied architecture in a London office, and who might have been a successful architect but for a downfall which had converted him, overnight, into a remittance-man and a fairly competent employee of the”

  Children of the Desert

• “He was an English remittance-man here in the early days.”

  Still Jim

• “We are by no means all millionaires, and our idea is not to make this colony a pleasure ground for the remittance-man.”

  Lorimer of the Northwest

• “It was a service that made men, and he thought of the English remittance-man, whose father was”

  Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police

• “He was not going to waste civilities upon this rowdy, drunken remittance-man, whom he had seen reeling through the streets of the stad as he went upon his own respectable way.”

  The Dop Doctor

• “Fearing was no gentleman adventurer, remittance-man, or humble clerk serving his apprenticeship to a steamship line or an ivory house.”

  The Lost Road

• “If the tenor of the MSM stays the same and Anderson Cooper does as well, that would have to make him effectively a "remittance-man" but worse, a traitorous”

  Editorials from Hell's leading daily newspaper

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