She called the gamin: he was a shrewd monkey-faced fellow, with an insolent crafty eye. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses himself, because he is unhappy. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a disease which must be cured, how?. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
This word gamin was printed for the first time, and reached popular speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
This gamin always had a cheery word for everybody. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Success] Reference
The gamin is born a tiler as he is born a mariner. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
There are a great many varieties of the gamin species. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Lucy paled, her gray eyes dominating her gamin features. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
"Did you see any other children, gamin?" the peeve called. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
She hovered around him like a gamin angel, lithe and funny. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
Un gamin pêchait, mais sans succès, au bord d'un ruisseau. From Wordnik.com. [French Conversation and Composition] Reference
He played the gamin in folk-scenes and the monster in burlesques. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
He was not a child, he was not a man; he was a strange gamin-fairy. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The gamin — the street Arab — of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Getting off the bus near my home, a gamin approached me and asked for money. From Wordnik.com. [Nikolas Kozloff: Colombia's Next President: A Renovation for the South American Left?] Reference
Hormis Shugo Nagashima qui joue Akito/Agito mais c'est un gamin donc ca compte pas!. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
Homer repeats himself eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
J'ai meme pleuré a cause de Tomoki koikil est tres pervers pour un gamin de 13 ans!!. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
The 22-year-old newcomer Anna Friel as the gamin stripper Alice is a particular delight. From Wordnik.com. [What's Love Got to Do With It? Closer Makes It Sexy on Broadway] Reference
S'ils ne sont pas capable de faire attention a ce que font leur gamin, on n'y peut rien!!. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
The whole of the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the gamin. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something of the sage in him. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
With her corseted eighteen-inch waist, she played the precocious gamin with a come-hither look. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Held.] Reference
One of the things that the gamin is fondest of saying is: “I am fine and strong, come now!”. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening in the large barricade. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Out by the toy counters, John found a dirty-faced street gamin in patched knee trousers confronting him. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
"Kid lost," explained the street gamin, who possessed an uncanny trick of working his way through a throng. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
The gamin proudly counted out upon the marble slab of that fashionable flower store the sum of seventy-five cents. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
"We've met before, Miss Lavinia," said Trent, and over her head his hazel eyes met Sara's with a gamin amusement dancing in them. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
He was six feet high, this gamin, and Jean never crossed the village without perceiving at one window the old furrowed parchment skin of. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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