In the course of his remarks, he applied the term "raggamuffins" to the soldiery in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [A biography of John Randolph, of Roanoke] Reference

But this expostulation served only to irritate the raggamuffins; and one of them taking hold of my arm tried to force me into compliance with his orders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832] Reference

Yet this people, he added, veriest raggamuffins that they are, despise the negroes, and consider it quite degrading to put themselves on term of equity with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

She learns from the worlds greatest Theologians and plays with the young raggamuffins in the streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Listal promoted] Reference

To be deprived of their Sunday recreational activities, to be marching through the streets under a scorching sun, and then be remain standing like fools on a public holiday, to be knocked out with bricks, was a little more than they had patience to bear so that, without waiting for an order, they fired and killed a dozen or two of the raggamuffins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution - Volume 2] Reference

Roland followed him), as if in utter defiance of the foemen whom he hailed with such opprobrious epithets, -- "h'yar you bald head, smoke-dried, punkin-eating red-skins! you half-niggurs! you 'coon-whelps! you snakes! you varmints! you raggamuffins what goes about licking women and children, and scar'ring-anngelliferous madam! git up and show your scalp-locks; for' tarnal death to me, I'm the man to take.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick of the Woods] Reference

In short, they were two awful-like raggamuffins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference

The raggamuffins we can tame. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810] Reference

On the following night, while he was seated in a front row of a box at the Chestnut street theatre, in company with some friends, members of the House, two officers of the army or navy, in an adjoining box, just before the curtain rose, began to vociferate to the orchestra, "Play up, you d — d raggamuffins," and repeated it at intervals during the performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A biography of John Randolph, of Roanoke] Reference

I daresay, not to tell a lee, there were fifty of them, from a shilling to eighteenpence, and so on; but small and small, reckoned up by simple addition, amount to a round sum; while, to add to the misery of the matter, I found we were entangling ourselves to work to a wheen ugly customers, skemps that had not wherewithal to pay lawful debts, and downright rascal-raggamuffins, and ne'er-do-weels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference

I daresay, not to tell a lee, there were fifty of them, from a shilling to eighteenpence, and so on; but small and small, reckoned up by simple addition, amount to a round sum; while, to add to the misery of the matter, I found we were entangling ourselves to work to a wheen ugly customers, skemps that had not wherewithal to pay lawful debts, and downright rascals, raggamuffins, and ne'er-do-weels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself] Reference