urchin

• Meeting a handsome elegant young gentleman when looking like a urchin was the stuff of nightmares. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
• The mouth, which up to that moment had formed a round O of astonishment, relaxed into a broad grin, and, with sudden energy, exclaimed What a grampus Having uttered this complimentary remark, the urchin was about to retreat, when Henry made a sudden dart at him, and caught him by the collar Where got you the news, Will Corrie?" —  Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader
• At first Heywood fancied the urchin was a wild beast of some sort on two legs, but a second glance convinced him that he was a real boy. —  Away in the Wilderness
• The animal has a head like a sea-urchin, his lips are blubbery, his tongue is too big for his mouth, and his face is like one that you see in a nightmare. —  The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary
• And the looks of fondness she threw at that stable-urchin were as good as a play And what will you do," I asked, "when you are married Go home and ask my father's forgiveness. —  Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches

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