Like a waif

Usage examples of homeless.

Among their children, comfortable men Gather about great fires, and yet feel cold: Alas, then, for the homeless beggar old!

And Algor was receiving its wandering homeless ones, who were coming home at last.

The last time you blackballed someone, that Garou came into the Tenderloin killing homeless as a form of revenge.

Maybe there was something within the fetish that made blackballed Bone Gnawers want to kill the homeless.

I like to think that the homeless man may have been acting under the influence of the Bunraku puppeteers.

The Combmaker employed many others, especially homeless children, in his observations.

New, taller, more glitzy buildings cast long shadows, but debris and homeless people clogged the places where runaway kids had once congregated.

Homeless on earth, gude Auld Jock had gone to a place prepared for him.

Even as the wave of horror gusted through it, the last sinistral, in the body of the man astride the homeless child, saw a terrifying thing in its mirror helm.

The homeless surged back into the tunnel and Hayward fired over their heads, breaking their ranks.

Elder Hennin, who had never liked Kelandris since the moment the child had been brought into the community as a homeless infant, decided the girl must be made into an example.

Friendship, hand in hand with admiration, tenderness and respect, built a bower of delight in my heart, late rough as an untrod wild in America, as the homeless wind or herbless sea.

Poinsinet, who was hearthless and homeless, as they say, spent the night in my room, and in the morning I gave him two cups of chocolate and some money wherewith to get a lodging.

Famished and homeless, loathed and loathing, wild, And hating good--for his immortal foe, He changed from starry shape, beauteous and mild, To a dire Snake, with man and beast unreconciled.

The dark forms of the man and woman glided slowly arm in arm along the walls with a loverlike and homeless aspect in the miserable night.