| 单词 | gamin |
| 例句 | Lulled by the enduring sharpness of her mind, she has forgotten that her body is no longer that of the 20-something gamin who suffered chloroforming and kidnapping in the name of good mystery fun. In Praise of Agatha Christie’s Accidental Sleuths 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z It was great for the character, that gamin, slightly tomboyish look, without wearing boy’s clothes.” Two Films, One Designer: The Costumes of ‘Carol’ and ‘Cinderella’ 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z A photo projected on the curtains that frame the playing area reveals a gamin, minxlike beauty: a little bit Carey Mulligan, a little bit Penelope Tree. Theater Review: John Guare’s ‘3 Kinds of Exile,’ at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-06-12T02:00:12Z By the end of the night, her gamin crop is plastered to her forehead with sweat; her smile is a little dazed, as if she isn’t quite sure what just happened. One Night. One Chance. One Liza (With a ‘Z’). 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The door is opened by Ms. Etienne, 75 — a wry, sinewy woman with a gamin haircut. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Tobiason's Eurydice is a goofy gamin, moving not quite as silkily as she did two years ago. Review: SDP's 'Project Orpheus' benefits from roomier setting 2010-09-22T21:31:00Z But while Ms. Tautou summoned Hepburn the mischievous gamin, Ms. Soo evokes Ms. Hepburn’s more stately and serene side, the princess in “Roman Holiday.” Review: ‘Amélie’ Is Easy to Listen To, but Never Really Sings 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z If Deschanel's gamin voice also overreaches its limitations at times, she charms more often, too, on "The Christmas Waltz," "Blue Christmas" and other baubles. Michael Bubl?, Carole King bring holiday cheer 2011-12-02T20:33:05Z Stanley wages a grouchy, sarcastic war on her credibility, only to find himself smitten by her gamin charm and persuaded by her claims of paranormal ability. ‘Magic in the Moonlight’: Another Woody Allen Odd Couple 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z While the start-up costs are expensive - each gamin station, which includes a desktop, chair, keyboard and mouse, in the Lackawanna College facility costs around $3,000 - there’s little transportation costs involved. More colleges forming esports programs 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Cost aside, nothing on display is too serious: Women’s dresses are short, flared and casually gamin, while this season’s men’s wear collection is the product of a collaboration with Reebok and the Korean illustrator Monassi. Browsing to the Beat at Maison Kitsuné 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z M. Randon gives us an imaginary conversation between a very small trumpeter in gorgeous uniform and a gamin of the street. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z She ate much, drank more, and behaved pretty quite like a gloriously lovely street gamin. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z If you take away from his political speeches all that he should not have said, he is a poor creature, a presumptuous rattle-trap, the gamin of Conservative politics. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-17T03:00:35.863Z She is exacting; she doesn't choose to go about with every gamin! Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z The gamins darted among the street-cars and automobiles, risking their lives for dimes as sparrows for corn, and escaping death as miraculously. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z When he did not attack mischievously like a gamin, he attacked vindictively like an Italian laborer whose sweetheart has been false to him. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z How wonderfully that saucy little gamin, the English sparrow, has adjusted himself to this new land! Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The soldiers in front shoulder arms and stand in file as the approaching company appears, followed by a lot of street gamins who keep step and sing to the music. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z As fond of blague as a Paris gamin, he must have enjoyed the idea of mystifying his friends while throwing dirt on a respected prelate's character. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z I am organizing, myself, a regiment of Jewish gamins, that I shall lead to combat seated in a sedan chair. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z The little gamin had a good start but the bigger boys ahead of Neale were gaining on him. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z How often, when I made a triumphant reply, did he half-mischievously wink at me, like a gamin de Paris, as if to say: "You got home all right that time." My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z The street gamin plays for copper centavos, while the pretentious caballero does the same for gold coins. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z “Cheese it, de cop!” screamed a ragged gamin, who stood on the step of the car, and the women and children began to slink into the doorways. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z I raced all the way home, running like a gamin, but I found no one there, for my sister had gone to the prize contest. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z But the gamin was petticoated and the burlesque scenes set in a comedy. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z One day he was allowed to go outside of the hospital, or rather stole out of the gate and played marbles with some street gamins in front of it. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The rough grinding of wheels, noisy bootblacks, whooping orange-sellers, screaming newspaper boys, howling dogs, the rattle of the street peddler, lottery ticket venders, fighting street gamins, all join to swell the mingled chorus. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z While she came from the tenements and is as wild and untrained as any little street gamin, she has the appearance of a child of a much higher class. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z The three carriages, crowded with young men, real rapins, I had almost said gamins, mad with success and intoxicated by thoughts of the future, made a veritable scandal in the streets. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Robertson wrote her a succession of gamin’s parts and burlesque scenes. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z She was already halfway up the stairs and she leaned over the balustrade to make a gamin’s face at him. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z It is this way: The gamins loiter there to watch the victims Who lose their hats. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z This picture represents half a dozen street gamins of the ordinary Parisian type holding a conference in the street. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Stupidly he sat gazing at the back of the gamin who slunk beside the aversion of the driver on the box. Loveliness A Story 2011-04-27T02:00:23.450Z But not even the rude Spanish gamins had uttered a jest as the lady glided timidly along; the beggars, wrapped in their mantles of rags, had not held out their hats to solicit alms. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z Eugene Rhoeden, with his gay boldness and graceful impudence, his unconscionable aplomb, and his denial from principle of all personal dignity, is what is called in the Vienna slang a gamin. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z A carroty-headed little gamin about my size came dancing out in front of me, flinging his arms about and demanding, "Kin you fight?" Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z In Verlaine, however, there was always a cleft: now he is pure pilgrim of yearning, now rou�; now priest, now gamin. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z But in spite of his alacrity in fleeing, our friend holds the London gamin somewhat in dread. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z Dickens had made a close study of this type of London gamin, as we have discovered in his Artful Dodger, Master Bates, and other demoralizing and diverting characterizations. In Jail with Charles Dickens From the patisserie around the corner—I sent the gamin, who brought the message from Father Anton, for them. The Belovéd Traitor The spring weather, the sense of approaching vacation make gamins of the quietest of us. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew He was a provincial with massive red fists and the curious face of a child that has been corrupted early in life—a gamin, but a genius. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z There is no cascade, no peak, no lake, no guide with a fund of useless information, no gamins practised in the seduction of tourists. Last Words The gamin strain that seemed innate in their blood was developed and strengthened thus. The Furnace The gamin's mother was sick, and Father Anton must sit up the night, and stay there all this day! The Belovéd Traitor "Oh no; they would do nothing so roturier—English and Americans——" "They would not know us; you forget what a good gamin my noble lady makes." Love's Usuries The present king, Henry of Valois, was a merry, sulky, careless, deceitful, kindly, cruel cipher—the "man-woman," as they named him, the "gamin"-king. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The two boys, so strangely contrasted, one evidently from a rich home, to judge by his clothes and manner, the other a gamin of the streets, passed out of the factory yard. The Newsboy Partners Or Who Was Dick Box? I have heard much of the gamins of Gotham, but I never realized what the gallows-deserving rascals were till I settled in New York City. Every-Day Errors of Speech Who was there that did not know Jean Laparde—from the President of France to the gamin of the gutters! The Belovéd Traitor Nobody occupied it now except, possibly, a passing tramp or the street gamin who had destroyed it. Dorothy at Oak Knowe So little stands between a gamin and all the dignities of Nature. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time "Shut it before it blows wrinkles in our faces," Maud called in her gamin voice to break the ice, looking like a skinny teen-ager in the tight, knee-length frock she'd copied from the New Girl. The Big Time The gamin bounced up and took charge of Jadiver, leading him to a small workshop screened off in a corner of one of the larger rooms. Tangle Hold Comic plays were written about him, and the gamins under the porticos ridiculed him. Maids Wives and Bachelors "Not exactly," muttered I, taken too suddenly to recover myself; "when I was a boy, a mere child—" I here by accident employed a Mexican word almost synonymous with the French "gamin." Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas From their first meeting Pat had taken a great fancy to the street gamin. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp We can imagine the gamins of Israel echoing and embellishing the "chaff" launched by Elijah at the discomfited priests of Baal. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. Jadiver inspected it thoroughly, the gamin standing impatiently at his side. Tangle Hold Can you imagine yourself letting a New York, or Paris, or London street gamin carry your purse for three hours? Through Our Unknown Southwest "Not exactly," muttered I, taken too suddenly to recover myself; "when I was a boy, a mere child—"I here by accident employed a Mexican word almost synonymous with the French "gamin." Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Sparrer's eyes were round with indignation, for even a street gamin has better ethics than this. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp The drum and fife band practised in the tiny square before an enthusiastic audience of gamins. Cavalry of the Clouds A gamin's face peered through the doorway and one hand thrust his clothing into the room and waved it. Tangle Hold Look here, for instance," cried he, as he pointed to me with his sword, "is that 'gamin' yonder like an artillery-driver? or is it to a drummer-boy you intrust the caisson of an eight-pounder gun? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Five minutes later he waddled off the pier in triumph, looking, so far as his legs were concerned, like a big, badly stuffed sawdust doll, or a half-starved gamin suffering from elephantiasis. Campaigning in Cuba But that was when he was Sparrer Muldoon, street gamin and champion scrapper of the gang; with no higher ethics than the right of might. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp Paris street gamins climbed the lamp-posts and waved their caps and wooden shoes and shouted shrilly. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" “But them Billy Button and Nick Parson boys, what of them?” demanded Dennis, junior, his own sympathy running toward the clever gamins. A Sunny Little Lass That was the source of her own interest in what was otherwise a mere recollection of an attractive gamin with an even more attractive sister. When Ghost Meets Ghost Her manner changed again to that of a gigantic gamin. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Where the trail led close to the end of the big beaver dam he stopped abruptly and a last brief battle was fought between Scout and gamin. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp Into the Place de la Republic of the town the battery swung with a clamorous advance guard of schoolchildren and street gamins. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" With that courtesy which even the gamins of the streets unconsciously acquire from their betters, Billy pulled off his cap again and moved away. A Sunny Little Lass You see, the street gamin loves nothing better in the way of diversion than throwing things at somebody, particularly if that somebody is what is known to his vernacular as a Willie-boy. Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman They were eager, alert, precocious gamins, of the street type and how they had come to California I could not tell you. Gold The "Ring" near Grosvenor Gate was the scene of gallantries of the days of Charles II.; of late it has been devoted to the games of gamins and street urchins. Dickens' London Hurling herself through the circle, she fled blindly, with the gamins in pursuit. Carmen Ariza The hair hung down her back in a thick, gleaming rope, her merry gamin's face lacked as yet all those subtleties, those nuances of expression which fascinated him in such faces as her mother's. Kildares of Storm Claire thought over what he had said, and her heart went out to this man as if he were still the little gamin of the hills. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author The confetti lay three or four inches deep on the walks, where street gamins slyly scraped it into private receptacles for second use. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life At Frankfort for centuries the most venerable Rabbi had to take off his hat if the smallest gamin cried: 'Jud', mach mores!' Dreamers of the Ghetto The gamins who had caused the accident had fled. Carmen Ariza Some gamin from the village, who had been to school, was always on hand to volunteer as book-keeper for the owners, entering the sales in pencil on almost any piece of paper. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore Fisherfolk, street gamins, caddies, loafers on the docks and in the livery stables, millionaires and million-heiresses––people who had thought themselves either above or below religion––came to our meetings. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry "I!" exclaimed this gamin, in the most innocent and artless manner. Harper's Young People, August 31, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly As it was, he gathered a goodly sized crowd of street gamins who hooted at his heels until he was forced to take to the side streets. The Web of the Golden Spider The gamins stopped their play as the girl approached, and stared at her in expectant curiosity. Carmen Ariza Following the march, or keeping up with it along its flanks, trooped the gamins of the town, enviously studying the colorful uniforms. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore It is difficult to believe in the refinement of a girl who permits her fresh young lips to utter the slang of the bar-room hanger-on, the gambler and the street gamin. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society I had never been under that kind of discipline, and to have a pin-headed gamin order me to clean spittoons was more than I could stomach. A Son of the Middle Border "King's sons don't go about the high roads with little gamins like you," replied the practical Blanquette. The Belovéd Vagabond That young gamin de Paris can sing as many love ditties and drinking songs as there are hairs upon his head, before he knows how much is nine times seven. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France The rector stops praying—his face wears a frown; A ragged young gamin is pulling his gown. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others Note the vivid picture of the life of a street gamin here and in lines 112-126. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning He was two years older than I and had all of a city gamin's cunning and self-command. A Son of the Middle Border A few days after telling the story he is shot by a gamin whom older men have made half-drunk and furnished with a pistol with directions to do what he does. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century I’d be a little ashamed to say how much money I handed out to servants and beggars and street gamins that day. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 A group of youths who were standing near shouted "Well said, gamin." The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story She noticed the gamin on the steps of the shop the other day, coming home from the races. Germinie Lacerteux There are sounds of music in the distance, and the gamins run to meet the bands and give them escort. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere I smiled back, and when the heavy doors of our night's lodging-house closed behind us, I found the small gamin was inside, too,—self-installed errand boy. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Beyond that she had a sudden curiosity,—her husband had often said that she had a touch of the gamin—as to how Mrs. Wade would give her tea. Love of Brothers One knows that; but the wretchedest of its "gamins" knows that it is something else also. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Little cared for by his father, he was brought up by his grandfather, a tailor, who let him roam the streets as a gamin. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) She called the gamin: he was a shrewd monkey-faced fellow, with an insolent crafty eye. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 "I wish I were a little street gamin in London," said the girl pensively, fingering the violets at her corsage. The Secret House The bluebird, with his bright coat, looked like an officer in uniform in pursuit of some wicked, rusty little street gamin. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs No, no; I learnt his history, the history of a gamin of fifteen or thereabouts. Tongues of Conscience The cry, "Aux Tuileries," first launched by the street gamins, soon became the slogan of the crowd. Royal Palaces and Parks of France He had in all likelihood learnt Allan's widely flying, largely read verses, which every gamin of the streets knew by heart, in his childhood. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets Fashion reigns supreme among the gamins of the East as well as among the ladies of the West. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis The grin was restored to the homely, freckled visage and the salt water gamin danced in jubilant excitement. Blackbeard: Buccaneer It was much the same as a history of a London pavement, with this exception, that the gamin had a mother to whom he presented me without undue formality. Tongues of Conscience I was as hot as fire, and some of the gamin's blood was still on my hand. Explorers of the Dawn Of these, the two which rank first, and which are best known to her admirers, are studies of the Paris gamin. Child-life in Art The gamins of the corner offer eagerly to find a carromata for you, but they frequently forget the object of their mission in their search. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia On the piers which jut out into the rivers on all sides of the city, any one can see troupes of gamins every warm, pleasant day. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. The Trafalgar Square gamin disappeared, and at last my sea-urchin stood before me. Tongues of Conscience The old preacher looked into the eyes of the street gamins about him, and he began to wonder. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories A captivating story of dear Phillips Brooks and a little street gamin of Boston. The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story The boy’s been bad—truant—street gamin—all that sort of thing, and his mother, who comes in to clean for me sometimes, has been awfully anxious about him. The Squirrel-Cage "Wharf rats," street gamins, Arabs, and other euphonious terms are applied to that class of boys, who, having no homes, make one for themselves in the streets. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. The birds fluttered and whistled on these occasions, the gamins clapped their hands and shouted, the good citizens cried "Noel!" and "Vive le Roy!" and the courtiers were delighted at the joyous spectacle. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. The gamins hurled their caps into the air, while the women had at once gone on the run to look for glasses. The Fête At Coqueville 1907 One of the immense fountains afforded the gamins a place of shelter. Edmond Dantès By this time a crowd of gamins—the gamins are always up, no matter how early—had gathered in the middle of the street around the object of the disturbance. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Many of these gamins have houses under the docks. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. She flashed him a gamin grin and they went on into the control room. Masters of Space The gamin of Paris, grown up to early manhood, fed on three meat meals a day, supplied with plenteous pocket money, and allowed to rule a tribe of tailors, would be a larrikin. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile "They assailed him with a shower of groans, it is said, and some of the gamins flung pebbles at his gates." Edmond Dantès It was like gamins scrambling for a penny. A Son Of The Sun I want to cut away the companion-hatch and run up a regular stair to the deck; then it’s advisable to cut away at least half o’ the main deck to heighten the gamin’ saloon. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West Several gamins have been contributed to our literature by Dickens—quite as typical and quite as truthful in their way, each of them, as Hugo's Gavroche. Charles Dickens as a Reader You thought the Kid shot out the lights to steal the gamin'-money; but he didn't. A Voice in the Wilderness And up and down the whole line, a baker's dozen of streets gamins skirmished on the lookout for some adult to whom they might attach themselves for the time being. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Why, the street gamins of Kaio Chow were not much worse when I first went there. Torchy As A Pa He felt toward them that quaint mixture of envy, contempt and a desire to fight which fills a gamin at sight of a fashionably dressed boy. The Plum Tree Great was the joy of the Parisian gamins at having such a sight provided for their amusement. Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series And what the results of the intended education of English gamins of every degree in that new higher theology will be, England is I suppose by this time beginning to discern. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 "Kid lost," explained the street gamin, who possessed an uncanny trick of working his way through a throng. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life He chose instead a sheaf of lilies, long-stalked and heavily scented, and despatched them in the care of a picturesque gamin. The Hippodrome The gamins of Paris love to dabble in petroleum and play with lucifer matches, and revel in destruction and conflagration. The Insurrection in Paris There are times when Strawinsky comes into the solemn conclave of musicians like a gamin with trumpet and drum. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers It looked to them as very ridiculous—this delicate-looking dude punishing that gang of rough and vigorous gamins. Oscar the Detective Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective Though the boys stalked in and out the winding, bush-beset trail, their search startled only nervous-tailed squirrels and dozens of the feathered gamins which had so sorely puzzled the two schoolmams. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life The gamins and beggars whistled and hummed it in the streets and squares. The Hippodrome They are old and ragged, the cast-off finery such as is picked up by street gamins. Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation There was not a bit of gossip among the gamins, little Creole and Spanish fellows, with dark skins and lovely eyes like Spaniels, that Titee could not tell of. Violets and Other Tales He takes great interest in the young gamins, whom I have described as "pedlering" in the railway cars, selling newspapers and cheap periodicals; they are a numerous class, and often sharp little fellows. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 "Then this is for you," quoth the gamin, thrusting a note across the bar. The President A novel It struck him that there was something of the boy, the gamin, about her in spite of her exotic appearance. The Hippodrome Do you remember how the street gamins pointed us out? The Lighted Match And the gamins from the poor quarters stare in also, and wonder what those black lumps are. The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' These, crushing the lighter and more fragile packages beneath, spread the contents of the latter in the roadway to serve as sport for gamins and other loungers who prowled around. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Within five minutes thereafter, a ragged gamin strutted into the Albion bar. The President A novel The gamin, the "Becky Sharp" that Emile and the others knew, he had never seen, and he had always resented her numerous irreverent nicknames. The Hippodrome He followed the young man with the interest and the undisguised admiration of a Paris gamin watching an aristocrat go to the guillotine. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs While he read it the boy watched him with the admiration which, in Paris, even the rat-like gamin of the streets pays to distinction such as his. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories The girls are much more gamin than the boys, and more romping and joyous. Letters from Egypt "Be you Steamboat Dan?" chirped the gamin, fixing the eye of a sparrow upon that tapster. The President A novel "Them fellers hasn't no boquets in their guns," is the way a street gamin expresses it. Foes in Ambush They were street gamins of the better class, and were both sympathetic and entertained. The Debtor A Novel It touches the depraved gamin of the alley and the celebrated scholar whose pen and voice shed light and comfort. The Vitalized School These lilies, gathered with short stems and massed in a crowded bunch, at once lose their individuality and become mere little freckled yellow gamins of the flower world. The Garden, You, and I Once the gamins killed a poor little cat of mine; and I forgot God—the good God—and said wicked things; and I could have torn them into little, little pieces! The Quickening The London gamin, always on the watch for sarcasm, stopped and stared at her. Sunrise A child may take no harm by sitting on the same bench with village children, but the London gamin is not a desirable acquaintance. The Quest of the Simple Life Although perfectly gentle, they were as alert as gamins for mischief, and delighted hugely in adding to the general row and confusion if anything happened to go wrong. The Killer Around the little newsboy huddled a group of street gamins, counting out their few pennies, and talking excitedly of how they would buy him some flowers. The Witness "No, no, sir," responded the sharp voice of the London gamin. Prince Fortunatus In tatters, like the sleeping street gamin, this other boy still had something winsome, something elusively handsome, about him, a certain refinement of features. The Master Mystery And Mr. O'Neill, God save him for a pleasant gentleman though a bit wild in the eye, took my Dinny up to be a gamin. Kenny That gamin, turning from a minute examination of Redmond's spurred moccasins, began to swing his chubby legs and bounce up and down upon the cushioned seat. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Her turban, that thing which had paraded so saucily in the pink room while the babies slept regardless, was an outsider—a gamin among hats. Married Life The True Romance The old slave was being assailed by a mob of street gamins and low pedlers who saw in the contents of the hamper so much fair plunder. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. However, a black patch over one eye showed that this gamin was manly enough, evidently, when it came to fighting. The Master Mystery Her speech was unaffectedly that of a Milwaukee Avenue gamin, and it served adequately and admirably as a vehicle for the expression of her emotions and ideas. The Real Adventure He was a typical gamin, so diminutive in stature that I had to stoop to interrogate him, which I did in this way: "Where do you get your papers, my little man?" More Toasts She was an artist in photography; had a portfolio of off-hand sketches of street gamins, newsboys, etc., full of life and expression. Memories and Anecdotes Street gamins were howling, and idle slaves and hucksters were pouring forth volleys of taunts and derision at some luckless wight. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. It was the same gamin who had given the sleeping boy money. The Master Mystery I had paused possibly thirty seconds, in which time I had learned the cause of the crowd, when I heard a gamin yell "Bull!" The Road This gamin always had a cheery word for everybody. Certain Success We find, for example, agriculture taught out of a text book in the primary schools, with the result that the gamins of the Belfast streets secured the highest marks in the subject. Ireland In The New Century The luck of the Wallace fountains," cries one moralizer, "shows how hard it is to reform the Paris gamin so long as the law contents itself with its present measures. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 "I am a gamin of the world, monsieur." Katrine Every gamin in the gutter is all for one boat or for the other, and dances excitedly to know the result. Flames And here let me remark that those who have thought it cruel and inhuman on the part of the conquerors to arrest and detain as prisoners gamins of from twelve to sixteen, are quite mistaken. France in the Nineteenth Century Occasionally also an artist catches a couple of gamins in the gutter and asks them to come to his studio. Miscellanies Loubet laughed the laugh of the Parisian gamin, who has experienced the various vicissitudes of life in the Halles. The Downfall The gamins and vauriens of the quarters—louts and cruel rabble—were running after him—yes, screaming all about him. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 A flash of childish cunning crept into her eyes and mouth, giving her the aspect of a gamin. Flames There he ran wild with the little peasant boys, and subsequently in Marseilles with the gamins of the city. France in the Nineteenth Century Perhaps the School Board will teach the London gamin his own artistic value, and then they will be better models than they are now. Miscellanies They found him a short distance away, engaged in settling a dispute that had arisen among some street gamins over a game of marbles. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 The Bishop of Derry, commenting on these rhythmic novelties, likens them to the sound of a stick drawn by a city gamin sharply across the area railings,—a not inapt comparison. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems The Prince de Ligne, in a discourse which you have doubtless read, seems to me to have described it in one word by saying that it was the speech of a gamin. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 Two gamins with swords hacked patiently for two hours at a cast-iron double-headed Austrian eagle. France in the Nineteenth Century The gamin in the gutter may be a necessity, but the gamin in discussion is a nuisance. Miscellanies The gamin proudly counted out upon the marble slab of that fashionable flower store the sum of seventy-five cents. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 I finally decided 'to go on, sir,' but I hardly retain my self-respect when I remember how I submitted for three months to a series of petty annoyances unworthy the lowest gamins of New York. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 The gamin of Paris, who is the father of argot, long ago gave to the quarter of the city through which the Rue Mouffetard runs a name which clings to it tenaciously. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Elsewhere a party of gamins were turning over a magnificent scrapbook. France in the Nineteenth Century The gamins always have instinct enough to know whom their sting will strike first and sharpest, and therefore I was, for a time, the one most exposed to their spite. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig He chooses a story of quaint old ladies, street gamins, and fat aldermen. The Art of the Moving Picture You can sit in the gallery for five sous if you like the company of the Paris gamin. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 Ah, gamin, you eternal boy!" answered Barbicane, "you don't want oxygen to make you out of your senses! The Moon-Voyage A gamin recognized the fugitives, and shouted, "Here comes the empress!" France in the Nineteenth Century There was no great crowd, but a score or two of spectators, mainly belonging to the gamin category, were standing around the officiating priests and curiously looking on. What I Remember, Volume 2 It represents in an acuter way another phase of the same child-struggle with the heat that the gamins indicate in their pursuit of the water-cart. The Art of the Moving Picture As he passed down the street a gamin yelled: "What's the kid done?" Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations The drama, in the eyes of the Parisians, is almost a sacred rite, and not even the noisiest gamin would raise his voice above a whisper when the curtain is up. In the Days of My Youth All the trees, bare and leafless at that season, were filled with freezing gamins. France in the Nineteenth Century Through this ugly huddle we passed first: there were working men on the sidewalks, gamins in the gutters,—nothing to remind one of the war. A Volunteer Poilu He was only a common little street gamin, as unlovely as he was unloved. Two Little Knights of Kentucky From some of the gamins he learned the seven notes of the scale, and, to preserve the melodies that delighted him, he invented a system of musical notation. Delsarte System of Oratory The picture was called the "Meeting," and shows seven gamins talking together before a wooden fence at the corner of a street. Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. It was like forcing sanitary improvements on the inhabitants of an Irish shanty, or catching a street gamin and imposing on him the restraints and amenities of high-class culture. France in the Nineteenth Century He had scarcely reached the sidewalk when he was set upon by a couple of vigorous gamins, with the evident intent of discouraging him in the new business. Brave Tom The Battle That Won Jonesy, with all the fearlessness of a little street gamin brought up in a big city, answered him fearlessly, even saucily at times, much to the man's amusement. Two Little Knights of Kentucky The unmistakable air of the gamin was apparent beneath the superficies of the gentleman. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 In the same Salon she exhibited six pictures in pastel: four portraits, and heads of a gamin and of a little girl. Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. Even then he used to throw money among the gamins, as later he scattered it in how many directions, with what liberality, and with what princeliness, and from what a slender purse! The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 But we fight like soldiers, you understand, and not like gamins in the gutter. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard She keeps her face very dirty: all about her mouth was dry-stained with a polychrome of grape, mûrs, and other coloured juices, like slobbering gamins of old. The Purple Cloud She had the profile of a young Greek goddess and the grin of a gamin. Mary Wollaston He takes great delight in imitating the lingo of the New York street gamin. Edison, His Life and Inventions The gamins laughed and chattered in their soft patois; the Don smiled tenderly upon Athanasia, and she durst not look at the reeds as she talked, lest their crescendo sadness yield a foreboding. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Everywhere there is decaying garbage lying about, and the dead cats and rats are evidence that there are mighty hunters among the gamins of the Fourth Ward. In Darkest England and the Way Out Tattered gamins on the right made a furious assault on the gravel heap. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets He was so indignant that the gamin element in his nature stirred again under his fine broadcloth, and he had a wild longing to throw stones at M. Wilkie. The Count's Millions A colourless, continuous wall ran down one flank of it, interrupted at intervals by dull-hued and dirt-stained doors, all shut fast and featureless save for the chalk scribbles of some passing gamin. The Wisdom of Father Brown There was not a bit of gossip among the gamins, little Creole and Spanish fellows, with dark skins and lovely eyes, like spaniels, that Titee could not tell of. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories In the gallery a street gamin whistled shrilly, and called to some friends on the other side of the house. McTeague When a child, playing and fighting with gamins in the street, dirt disguised her. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets "Bravo, gamin!" or, "Give it to him, Coralth!" he shouted in turn. The Count's Millions "Monsieur mon gamin d'Alfred," George Sand called him at that time. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings How the little gamins, Creole throughout, came half shyly near the log, fishing, and exchanging furtive whispers and half-concealed glances at the silent couple. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. Les Misérables He almost dreaded to find another father owning a noble boy like this—and such a father as he would be if it were true that he was only a street gamin. Lo, Michael! Chupin's nature combined, in a remarkable degree, the vices and peculiarities of the dweller in the Paris faubourgs, who is born old, but who, when aged in years, still remains a gamin. The Count's Millions Napoleon was at heart too much of a gamin for his taste. Thomas Carlyle She smiled, and with the flash of her teeth and something of gamin roguishness in her expression, the feeling that he had seen her before—knew her—grew stronger. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each other are very various. Les Misérables He is twenty-four years old, thin, dark, handsome, with a cat-like lightness and grace, and a certain repulsive, gamin evil in his face. Twilight in Italy If he's made so much of him, it sort of proves that he wasn't a gamin. Michael O'Halloran The rise of this gamin from the dust-heap to his present lofty position was as interesting as it was instructive. The Under Dog She forgot her refinement and the ladylike solemnity of her face gave place to a gamin smile. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. Les Misérables He is the gamin of the village, well detested. Twilight in Italy Then a feeling of angry resentment arose, and one day Cosmo Versál was mobbed in the street, and the gamins threw stones at him. The Second Deluge Evidently the lad was not a street gamin, a tough. Thoroughbreds The Italian gamin was not the sort of man to have anticipated this transfiguration and to have watched its stages. Tales from Bohemia To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses himself, because he is unhappy. Les Misérables The boy insists upon having the privileges of the young man, and the young man tries to keep those of the gamin. Amiel's Journal At the end of the alley he questioned a boy, a typical Marseilles street gamin. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire I should like to look into the wonderful eyes of the old Ninette, to feel the soft cheek laid against mine, to hold the little brown hands, as in the old gamin days. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons "Say Pop, where do you get this gold, anyhow?" asked a tobacco-chewing gamin at the railroad station one day. Tales from Bohemia The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. Les Misérables They went into the Corralón; a crowd of gamins and old women, amazed to see such a strange woman there at such an hour, surrounded them, showering Manuel and Leandro with questions. The Quest He stood a moment eyeing the gamin, who pretended to snivel. The King in Yellow That lady grinned, almost the grin of a gamin. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors There was no truth in the assertion of the gamin. Tales from Bohemia Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin. Les Misérables The three gamins walked down to the Canal, to the little house near the river's edge, which Manuel and the urchins of his gang had so often visited, trying to peep into the windows. The Quest A gamin who had seen this burst into a peal of laughter, which rattled harshly in the silent street. The King in Yellow There were glimpses, in the wet glare, of black headlines of newspapers, and the shrill professional cries of the gamins, "Hawthorne convicted!" The Subterranean Brotherhood With long, entangled hair, a thin, crafty face, and stealthy eyes, he was a true type of malevolent gamin, all the more uncanny for the crudity due to his semirustic environments. Tales from Bohemia The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in this youth. Les Misérables Manuel sat up; there was a knot of gamins close by, but the Orphan was nowhere to be seen. The Quest A gamin, with an appearance of great concern, requested the latest telegraphic news from London, and then, standing on his head, invited Selby to feats of strength. The King in Yellow The million and a half of small boys of whom I have already spoken—mostly street gamins, owing to the lateness of the hour—sprang up from all about us. The Water Ghost and Others When coming home at night with a haunch of venison on his shoulder, a band of these gamins of the wilds would follow him teasing at his heels. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. Les Misérables "Take care of that spring-matress," bellowed a flat-nosed gamin who was going about striking the sleepers with a stick in the shins. The Quest A few women muffled in tattered military capes crept along the frozen pavement, and a wretchedly clad gamin hovered over the sewer-hole on the corner of the Boulevard. The King in Yellow Saints by the dozen, like this,' and Alphonse drooped his eyes and crossed his limp hands, taking off the frescoed mediaeval saint for an instant, as only the Parisian gamin can do such things. The History of David Grieve A growing gamin coarseness in her talk with a nervous, restless twitter underneath. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something of the sage in him. Les Misérables She was at once elegant and rakish; the gamin in her was obviously the touch of caviare to season the woman of fashion. In and out of Three Normady Inns Slowly and with great deliberation, a small gamin picked himself out of the gutter and surveyed Trent with disgust. The King in Yellow How expect understanding of a common human hurt from this being, who alternately appeared in the guise of a god and a gamin? The Nest Builder I'd be a little ashamed to say how much money I handed out to beggars and street gamins that day. The Deluge Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of him." Les Misérables She was a French gamin, with all the shrewdness, impudence, and self-confidence of the class. At Agincourt In one place he saw some gamins cutting huge pieces of flesh off the dead body of a horse that was lying in the path. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) He was forced to listen to jeering remarks, even from the street gamins. Topsy-Turvy A wisp of sunny hair blew across her crimson cheek; slender, active, excitedly unconscious of self, she seemed like some eager, adorable little gamin perched there, intent on mischief. The Green Mouse The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to meet. Les Misérables In the crowd which filled the courtyard there was a gamin of Paris, a child of Athens, who has since become am elegant and charming poet, Albert Glatigny. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness "They have come to draw lots to see who is to go and kill M. Thiers," cries a red-haired gamin.—"Idiot," retorts his comrade, "they have no arms!" Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) Your very costermonger trolls out his belief that “there’s a good time coming,” and the hearts of gamins, as well as millenarians, answer, “True!” Yeast: a Problem "Well, I—I guess, honey, if the truth was told, your old man ain't cut out for nothing much besides the gamin'-table—a fellow that's knocked around the world the way I have." Gaslight Sonatas The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a disease which must be cured, how? Les Misérables What Velasquez was doing in the court of Madrid, Murillo was doing in the streets of Seville; the one painting cardinals, kings, and courtiers; the other painting beggars, gamins, and waifs. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People I saw several women on the roof, and the gamins were everywhere, hanging on to the sculptured ornaments, or riding fearlessly on the shoulders of the marble busts. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) He was a genuine specimen of the ordinary Paris gamin. The Children's Pilgrimage Rex moved aside; as he did so a gamin crowded quickly forward and craned over the edge, shouting, ``Vive le cadavre!'' In the Quarter The titi is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed with wings and soaring. Les Misérables Make way there! make way there! the horses are flying, The sparks from their swift hoofs shoot higher and higher,The crowds are increasing - the gamins are crying: “Hooray, boys!” Poems of Power Exactly in the same way 'Capuchin' was at first a jesting nickname, given by the gamins in the streets to that reformed branch of the Franciscans which afterwards accepted it as their proper designation. On the Study of Words The English sparrow is a street gamin, our bird a timid rustic. Locusts and Wild Honey The soldier dropped the butt of his rifle with a ring, and said deferentially: ``Pardon, Monsieur, but the gamin has been here every day and all day for two weeks. In the Quarter The whole of the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the gamin. Les Misérables One seems to pick it up in the very nursery, and even the London gamin knows a poet when he doesn't see one. Without Prejudice The others also had their correspondence ready, so no time was lost in entrusting the mail to the same gamin who had thrown the paper on board and making final preparations for the start. The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest Before she knew it she had flung open her carriage door, had leapt out, had cuffed soundly the ears of the three dumbfounded gamins, and was back among her cushions, the dog in her arms. The Unwilling Vestal But even the gamins did not know -- yet. In the Quarter This word gamin was printed for the first time, and reached popular speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. Les Misérables The street gamins imitated the Kluck, which gave name to the Klan. Bricks Without Straw Seeing six boys attacking one, he attempts to rescue the solitary fighter, when to his surprise the gamin turns on him, insults him, strikes him with a stone, and bites him. Essays on Russian Novelists The storm was so severe as to master the curiosity of the incipient crowd, and only a few street gamins followed his example. Without a Home All the lonelier for two wretched gamins, counting their dirty sous and draggled newspapers. In the Quarter The gamin is born a tiler as he is born a mariner. Les Misérables He played the gamin in folk-scenes and the monster in burlesques. Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 With a horde of gamins and low, horrid men crowding about—" They won't be allowed to crowd about!" Raspberry Jam Discovering my mistake upon arriving at the Rue Poussen, I am more fortunate in my attack upon the interpreting abilities of a passing citizen, who sends an Elbeuf gamin to guide me to the post-office. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran This is the first time that anyone has made a Paris gamin real; he is not too generous, nor too intemperate, nor too much of a vaudevillist. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine is. Les Misérables She was dark and thin with that charming ugliness which is peculiar to the gamins of Paris. A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; I have already picked up a dozen gamins, master, sharp little beggars, who jumped at the idea of being set to watch people. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War These moths are the gamins of their family, and love the streets and lights at night. Moths of the Limberlost For the Panamanian has little love for the United States or its people; which is the customary thanks any man or nation gets for lifting a dirty half-breed gamin from the gutter. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the graeculus of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the wrinkle of the old world on his brow. Les Misérables The homeless gamin, begging a sou with which to purchase a bed, and the spendthrift roué, scattering golden louis d'or, tread the same pavement. Rolling Stones The fishwives of Paris, the laborers, the gamins, even the beggars had as much right to see the Queen of France delivered, as the highest dignitary of the land. Joseph II. and His Court Nevertheless, there came into his cunning and ferocious eyes a glisten of the same light which had been in the little gamin's when, first by the bivouac fire, he had murmured, "Picpon s'en souviendra." Under Two Flags Kings had been glad to meet him, and newsboys and gamins ran shouting at his heels when he walked the streets. Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. Les Misérables They had served their business apprenticeships as grocery clerks, errand boys, telegraph messengers, and newspaper gamins. The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry Master and dog were hustled outside the gate and into a rabble of jeering slum gamin. Greyfriars Bobby To appreciate the full force of such fun, it is necessary to have also appreciated the gamin. Under Two Flags Her specialty lay in the personation of youthful masculine character; as a gamin of the street she was irresistible, as a negro-dancer she carried the honest miner's heart by storm. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories One of the things that the gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" Les Misérables At his heels trooped a score of excited gamins. The Cruise of the Snark They laughed in mockery and soon organized a big meeting at the nagan hushun to discuss letting the mob and gamins loose on the town. Beasts, Men and Gods To understand the legitimate aspect such a theft bore, it is necessary to have also understood the unrecordable codes that govern the genus pratique, into which the genus gamin, when at maturity, develops. Under Two Flags The gamin in the gutter may be a necessity, but the gamin in discussion is a nuisance. Shorter Prose Pieces Homer repeats himself eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Les Misérables He whistled shrilly through his teeth—the whistle of a gamin; and the cabman, glancing up and perceiving him, pulled around into the turning, and drew up by the awning. The Yellow Claw In among the crowd circulated the gamins, constantly talking, handing out papers, explaining and assuring. Beasts, Men and Gods He used the catch-words of the street gamins of New York without any consciousness of incongruity. The Foolish Virgin At this moment the scene was enlivened by the arrival of a young man accompanied by a true "gamin," who was followed by a porter dragging a hand-cart. A Start in Life Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin. Les Misérables Our authors are both right and wrong, for honor is simply the position a man takes with regard to the world, so that even gamins may be said to have honor. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students "I want to go into Master Broussel's house, captain," replied Friquet, in that wheedling way the "gamins" of Paris know so well how to assume when necessary. Twenty Years After Every trace of the street gamin fell from him. The Foolish Virgin The gamin, who must have been sixteen years of age, wore a gray blouse buckled round his waist by a polished leather belt. A Start in Life In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great deal. Les Misérables When I first became a student at Strassbourg, I wondered, subconsciously, when I heard the ragged gamins talk French fluently. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students "I understand," said the child, with that jeering smile which marks especially the "gamin de Paris." Twenty Years After "And fooled you," added Leon, making the gesture of gamins to express the action of picking pockets. Unconscious Comedians A few gamins, however, were around, in their eyes a suppressed eagerness in anticipation of wonderful and exciting things to happen. The Iron Heel A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. Les Misérables I knew, indeed, that it was their mother- tongue, but I was so accustomed to viewing all French as a sign of higher education that this knowledge in the gamins made me marvel. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students There was a certain amount of the gamin element in the girl, at all events she invariably got on well with small boys. Secret Adversary Then quiet again, though the gamins had startled and listened, like young deer, at the sound. The Iron Heel |
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