Abdulla, therefore, might only be one of these hangers-on. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
They were the hangers-on at the school President's parties. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Greener: Public Office In America: The Reign Of Idiots] Reference
Among the hangers-on was Frederick Leveson-Gower, a son of Earl. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
I suspected all you hangers-on would come around for your handouts. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
It doesn't really help their reputations as camera-crazed hangers-on. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Jackson, R.I.P.] Reference
Camp-followers and hangers-on of Congress, many of its members from the. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
But what are we to think of the hangers-on and parasites and shadows and. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Six gentlemen sat at the long table, and the room was crowded with hangers-on. From Wordnik.com. [The Tory Maid] Reference
Upon examination after death, the bronchial passages are completely blocked-up by these hangers-on. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Such a move would spread more evenly the benefits of federal employment (and its contractor hangers-on). From Wordnik.com. [The case for breaking up Washington -- and scattering government across America] Reference
Congress had brought crowds of attachés and hangers-on; and every department had its scores of dependents. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
All this was unheard of in India, where candidates typically travel in 20-car convoys with hundreds of hangers-on. From Wordnik.com. [The Quiet Revolutionary] Reference
Perhaps nothing, I soon realized, threatened Al Qaeda's powerful reputation more than its own members and hangers-on. From Wordnik.com. [Fight Fire with Funny] Reference
She looked like a queen as she sailed in, amongst her own domestics and all the retainers and hangers-on for miles round. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
Similar cakes are also bestowed on the hangers-on of the establishment, such as laundresses, sempstresses, charwomen, etc. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
She had further gathered to herself a crowd of hangers-on more or less artistic, and all given to requiring small temporary loans. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
The foundation, then housed in Warhol's vast studio, at first had the flavor of the old Factory, with lots of the usual hangers-on. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke And Mirrors] Reference
Easy money seems to attract an "entourage" or a "posse" of hangers-on who never tell a lottery winner the one word he needs to hear. From Wordnik.com. [Don McNay: Bailouts Don't Work: The Lotto Winners Study] Reference
After she loses in an early round during a Tokyo tournament, hangers-on hear Jennifer tell her father that she just wants to go home. From Wordnik.com. [Fault, Miss Capriati] Reference
I went to his funeral and it was the Who's Who of Village ex-pats, Broadway has-beens, and Hollywood hangers-on inSouthern California. From Wordnik.com. [They say the neon lights are bright ...] Reference
Free of handlers and hangers-on, she says that she was revitalized by the anonymity she found on the streets of Los Angeles and New York. From Wordnik.com. [Back In The Spotlight] Reference
Armed bodyguards, tribal leaders and hangers-on mill about as a man in a well-tailored suit signs official papers and huddles with aides. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Wolf' Who Would Be King] Reference
Our youth is plied by the hangers-on of professor this, or sophist that, each of whom wishes the fame or the profit of having a houseful. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Before midnight of the day of the robbery it became known to the force and many of the hangers-on of the gambling saloons and barrooms of the. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
A lot of them complained that they didn't know who they could trust, as they always attracted hangers-on who wanted something and weren't true friends. From Wordnik.com. [Think Like A Billionaire] Reference
A second Pharisee added complacently: "The enthusiasm of his hangers-on will soon cool down when he who has promised them freedom is himself in chains.". From Wordnik.com. [King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth] Reference
All told, over 500 students, judges, coaches, and hangers-on have flooded downtown Memphis for the 26th Annual American Mock Trial Association National Tournament. From Wordnik.com. [Zac Hill: A Few Notes Upon Witnessing a Bunch of Pretend Lawyers Hoot, Holler, and Collapse Into Tears] Reference
Attendance from the palace was made up of a long procession of court officers, underlings, self-serving hangers-on, and peons of every station and calling in life. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
He was shunned by his once sizable group of (mostly white) hangers-on, told politely to refrain from golfing at his favorite country club and jeered at many outings. From Wordnik.com. [Simpson Speaks] Reference
The day passed rapidly away, and 6 o'clock came, and all the civil officials, with the horde of hangers-on, departed, leaving the usual evening solitude in the barracks. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
They were, in fact, the inevitable hangers-on of an army, the more in number, as the escaped slaves were welcomed by the soldiers, as they made them do their dirty work. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
They landed in the south of France and were soon in the midst of a veritable circus of traveling musicians, girlfriends, poets, drug dealers and miscellaneous hangers-on. From Wordnik.com. [Keith Richards: An 'Exile' In France] Reference
Ribald songs and oaths from the players, drinkers, and hangers-on floated into the street, with now and then the bark of a six-shooter telling of drunken sport or bravado. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
The auto industry has consolidated early on, from hundreds of providers at the turn of the 20th century to the Big Three and a small number of hangers-on fifty years later. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Greenberg: IT Services Markets Crumble - Driving Detroit's Rut, Is the Media Business Next?] Reference
A recent sketch of Fort Snelling states that there were "no white neighbors except traders, agents of fur companies, refugees from civilization and disreputable hangers-on.". From Wordnik.com. [Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858] Reference
The audience of journalists, industry representatives and assorted hangers-on sat transfixed as Gingrich wowed them with his versatile intellect and his political derring-do. From Wordnik.com. [Comeback Kid?] Reference
Open doors afford glimpses of squalid interiors, crowded with slatternly women and dirty children, the hereditary retainers and hangers-on of this effete and moribund royalty. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
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