tramp

• Very early on, I had wanted this moment to be a visceral and silent one - like the devastating moment at the end of Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights," when the blind girl realizes the tramp is her secret benefactor by recognizing the touch of his hand.
• "What is a sundowner A sundowner is what you call a tramp in America," was the reply; "and he gets his name from one of his peculiarities. —  The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
• To-day, over this part of the road, the tramp is as scarce as the stage coach. —  The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five
• Clearer rings the "tramp--tramp," as nearer the horseman approaches. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
• It was not until they were drinking their coffee in the pleasant firelight that Olivia found an opportunity of narrating her husband's strange adventure of the previous evening Mr. Gaythorne listened with his usual air of half contemptuous amusement; but before she came to the end of the recital he turned upon her quickly Do you mean that the tramp is actually in your house at this moment?" —  Doctor Luttrell's First Patient

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