beach-combers

No shipping masters or beach-combers over here, and he wants yer in his business, and he wants yer bad.

Chapter 15 2010

The region was very early settled by a class of what may be truly termed “mean whites,” the “beach-combers” and riff-raff of the Pacific.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Then the jungle reabsorbed the nervous hillmen, and beach-combers straggled along the yellow sands.

Tropic Days 2003

Kipping and Falk and the beach-combers they had gathered together had conducted their campaign well.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

Moorish connection of Captain Kettle's family, and after reflecting upon my experience among hard-swearing men of many nations, seafarers, land-sharks, beach-combers and the rest, I award the Maalem pride of place.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

You know what I mean, sir: all that stuff about _dulce far niente_, manana, gin-soaked beach-combers, -- that sort of thing.

Terry A Tale of the Hill People Charles Goff Thomson

Outside of rare meetings with the officers and crews of the government's revenue cutters, their white acquaintances had been pretty much confined to the class known as "beach-combers," or deserters from the steam-whaling fleet.

Short Sketches from Oldest America

It seemed particularly strange because no one, not even beach-combers, would be likely to carry off a whole wreck, bodily, like that.

The Slipper Point Mystery 1921

There is at least the look of reality about his racy sailors, his consuls and beach-combers, and his irresponsible natives hovering between cannibalism and a half-comprehended Christianity.

Chapter 3. Romances of Adventure. Section 2. Herman Melville 1921

He told of the adventurers who had discovered those distant islands, of the sailors who, settling in them, had married the daughters of great chieftains, and of the beach-combers who had led their varied lives on those silvery shores.

The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands 1919