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Usage examples of outcast.

Every day the outcasts were in the streets, women with junk carts, a man dragging a mattress, ordinary drunks slipping in from the dock areas, from construction craters near the Hudson, people without shoes, amputees and freaks, men splitting off from groups sleeping in fish crates under the highway and limping down past the slips and lanes, the helicopter pad, onto Broad Street, living rags.

As much of an outcast as Joel had become, she insists that he never exhibited any antisocial behavior.

Charming and sought for as you are, its clammy hand can beslime you also, make a social outcast of you.

She saw kleptomancers of Palmary and outcasts of Serpenttooth plotting in the present.

Then some pin-eyed Jeltick scholar spotted a note at the end, buried in the appendices in a crude but related slang-language, obviously added later, but not much later, that basically said the whole thing had been written during the Long Crossing of the Second Ship, by an Outcast Dweller skilled in the Penumbral language, and that, yes, of course there was a Dweller List, they - the ship, or its crew - had the key to it, and it would be included in Volume Two or Three of this epic poem.

It took five years to turn an outcast rebel boy into a Blade and even Prime Candidate Ranter had been in the school for less than four.

Mr Semple was glad of someone to run with, and Mr Kay felt less of an outcast than he had done before Semple consented to join his morning pipe-openers.

We were now, as it seemed, the most deplorable objects in creation: without friends and without a gig, wet through, shelterless, amidst a crowd of drunken, loathsome outcasts of society, with only one solitary comfort between us--a pipe, which Charley enjoyed and I loathed.

She would have to be forever on guard, he insisted, lest the temptation of some moment, not to be foreseen, prove too strong for her latent weakness of character, and commit her, through some unpremeditated act of defiance to the law--most probably an act of theft--to the life of a social outcast.

If Adams had been rejected by the vote of the people, Rush had been made an outcast by much of his own profession.

From there it was just a short walk to Alsatia, which, outcast that I was, I had already begun to think of as home.

Ever since the incident at Vitoria, the men treated Amparo as an outcast, ignoring her most of the time and speaking to her only when necessary.

I did not even visit Georgius in the carcer, either to gloat at the old nauthing or to inquire why he had committed his family to work on behalf of the outcast Odoacer.

Roki, born to the nobility of Coph, dedicated to the service of the Sixty-Star Cluster, suddenly found himself something of an outcast.

An Old Blood human who flees his dying body and takes refuge in that of his Wit-partner becomes an outcast from the Old Blood community.