street-arab

And he didn't give me the dime, much less the home and stock; so you see, my dear, your father's street-arab career is beset with disappointments. '

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A pair of grey trousers, supported by one brace -- the other having given way some days ago -- a dirty shirt, neither jacket nor waistcoat, unwashed hands and face, boots coated in mud, hair which had not lately known a comb and brush -- it would have been difficult to find a grubbier street-arab within a few miles.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

The comique, closely shaven, wrinkled, shrivelled by the heat from the footlights, looked like an old street-arab; the financier wore cloth shoes, and no linen, so far as could be seen.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

"If you don't stop those street-arab tricks," remarked Mont, "you'll have a fit, after such a meal as you've had."

The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean Roy Rockwood

"I was about to say a street-arab," she concluded severely.

Brown Wolf 1907

"I was about to say a street-arab," she concluded severely.

Brown Wolf 1906

"I was about to say a street-arab," she concluded severely.

BROWN WOLF 1906

All his street-arab nature, all his instincts of gaiety, so long suppressed by his constant anxiety and disappointment, came out and betrayed themselves in roars of laughter, bursts of animal spirits and a picturesque need of childlike exuberance and riot.

The Crystal Stopper Maurice Leblanc 1902

"I was about to say a street-arab," she concluded severely.

Love of Life and Other Stories Jack London 1896

He told him to apologise, which the street-arab was only too glad to do.

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895