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 Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

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 Various 1915

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 Louis Dodge 1911

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

Still Jim Honor�� Morrow 1910

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 Harold Bindloss 1905

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 James Oliver Curwood 1903

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 Richard Dehan 1897

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

The Lost Road Richard Harding Davis 1890

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 - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Elbert Hubbard 1885