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Usage examples of bums.

Francis had watched two dozen people suspire into death, all of them bums except for his father, and Gerald.

Behind the half-busy bar a man with high collar, string tie, and arm garters drew schooners of beer from a tap, and at tables of no significant location sat men and women Francis recognized: whores, bums, barflies.

Thus, The Gilded Cage was a museum of unnatural sociality, and the smile of the barman welcomed Francis, Helen, and Rudy, bums all, and Pee Wee, their clean-shirted friend, to the tableau.

And further, the attention that the bums, the swells, the waiters, were giving the man, proved that this drunk was not dead, not dying, but living an epilogue to a notable life.

Why should any man be so gifted not only with so much pleasurable history but also with a gift of gab that could mesmerize a quintet of bums around a fire under a bridge?

bums screwing in boxcars, women gang-banged in the weeds, a girl of eight raped, and then the rapist kicked half to death by other bums and rolled out of the moving train.

That, in the company of innumerable small and wounded animals, bums on the street, near-dying and lost to God, he was only another means to grace or indulgence for Fina.

The audience, winos and bums, had decided to serenade them after a few minutes of just watching.

The eyes of New York women do not see the wandering bums or the boys with no place to go.

If they were all bums but still providing society with valuable art and thought, why that would be fine.

Profane and the two bums it would have been somebody: cop, barkeep, girl.

The two bums, sensing unfamiliar territory, veered away toward the west and the Park.

Most of the street bums were trash, too lazy to work, into drugs and petty crimes.

For instance, suppose somebody does something really horrible: oh, suppose he bums down a monastery.

Two bums sat on a nearby stoop, drinking something out of a paper bag.