Oliver Twist and friends

Usage examples of urchins.

She said good-bye to him then, and walked down the Tu Do to her hotel, and she felt a terrible tug at her heart at the sounds and the smells, and she laughed as she looked into the square and saw a GI trying to teach a bunch of street urchins how to play softball.

To the Reverend Starbuck, unused to the noise of battle, the sound was exactly like gigantic sheets of stiff canvas being ripped across, or perhaps like the noise caused by the wretched urchins who liked to run down Beacon Hill dragging sticks along the iron palings.

Mayhap he was not so inarticulate as expected from one of the lower orders, for he presented a persuasive story about a pair of urchins picking his pockets.

Black Eagle for three weeks, and being outwitted by a pair of urchins could only make him sound like a infirm cluck.

Us shall bless the saints and board of governors for thee for thy most kindly chops, so long as fleas skip nor urchins climb up chimbleys.

Rip recollected for one of the urchins that used to climb upon his back.

I have little doubt that, in early life, when running like an unbroken colt about the neighborbood of Stratford, he was to be found in the company of all kinds of odd anomalous characters, that he associated with all the madcaps of the place, and was one of those unlucky urchins at mention of whom old men shake their heads and predict that they will one day come to the gallows.

How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous?

To lure in the poor, especially the urchins, his exhibits tended toward the sensational.

There were workhouse girls, whores, urchins, street peddlers, and barmen.

Undoubtably, Leng selected victims that would not be missed: street urchins, workhouse boys and girls.

This causes the entire group of urchins to spontaneously roar and cheer with pleasure and excitement.

After each of his victories, the urchins lift Josh off Jeff and demand a restart.

Josh feels the urchins will not stop until they achieve the outcome they want, which is a win for Jeff.

The group of urchins begins to look around them with a strained and focussed view, some turning their heads almost like owls and then, in unison, they quickly and quietly melt away.