As Trimus and the others walked to the guard house, small street urchins ran along beside and behind begging for tales not coins. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
"'I'm the King of the Castle,'" chanted the urchin from the topmost pinnacle. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Miniver] Reference
All the festivities of the wedding-day destroyed, till this dear unlucky urchin is found. From Wordnik.com. [Act III] Reference
Only the live prawn went uneaten and most of the sea urchin, which is a more complicated story. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
I too noted the change from addressing the reader to addressing the urchin, which is what confused me, but it works, so that’s what’s important!. From Wordnik.com. [HEY CROW! • by Rumjhum Biswas] Reference
Having the initiator "urchin" at the very center adds to the problems of a solid core. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The name "urchin" comes from their body's close resemblance to the spine-covered hedgehog. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
WNW is "urchin," ` defined as "a small child, esp. a boy, who is poor, ragged, etc. and often mischievous or undisciplined.". From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
'urchin'cut, graduating the length around the neck and ears. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Crabrangoon, sea urchin and spinach over noodles. From Wordnik.com. [Thinly Sliced Raw Fish] Reference
It was only a little urchin, barefoot, and tow-headed. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Some urchin off the street would hardly be a worthy offering. From Wordnik.com. [Children Of The Ice] Reference
"There'll be one in de hurry-up wagon!" exclaimed another urchin. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film] Reference
On a ragged cot lay the urchin to whom Robby had given the biscuits. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
But suddenly into the focus of the cameras ran a barefooted urchin waving. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
I saw an urchin of nine brandishing with pride More's "Utopia" and Wells's. From Wordnik.com. [Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics] Reference
The urchin sidled away and Joel stood rigid, regarding the slip in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
"Say, is it Christmas, or Fourth of July?" gasped the urchin as he accepted them. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
"Yer ought to drive a coal wagon, you chump," retorted the urchin with a shrill yell. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
Caviar, smoked salmon and sea urchin will be consumed as the eight leaders chat about the food crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Not Worth Protesting] Reference
And thus it was that the urchin went down on the school records, and on the records of life afterward. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Of course, he knew what it was -- some good-for-nothing urchin finding a vent for his excited feelings. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
His fingers moved restlessly, like a street-urchin surveying an automobile and longing to blow its horn. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
I am correct in stating that you were a homeless, ragged little urchin prowling the streets of London. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
Half-turning his head, he saw a barefooted urchin dash across the street and into a store on the other side. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
He found himself liking this slip of a ragged urchin with fair hair, who defied him -- liking him tremendously. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
“I have no daughter,” she said, and then, as if I were a friendly urchin, “but you can keep me company.”. From Wordnik.com. [Mother's Angels] Reference
Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal At left, the sea urchin dish at Il Pesce, Eataly's seafood-focused restaurant. From Wordnik.com. [One Market, Many Italian Options] Reference
That a tree could possess this no one would suggest; that a sea urchin could possess it no one would be likely to contend. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
As she looked wistfully through, a little ragged urchin came whistling carelessly along the lane, kicking a turnip before him. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
They have succeeded in developing embryos from the eggs of the sea urchin, of the nereis, and of mollusks, without spermatozoa. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
She saw nothing near; but a ragged, barefooted, freckled-faced and snub-nosed urchin, coming along just then, divined her desire. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
After squirting sea-urchin foam on diver scallops for a dozen years, he now tosses live lobsters by the hundreds into stainless-steel kettles. From Wordnik.com. [G'bye Truffles, Hello Ribs] Reference
You remember the scene at the end of "" A Christmas Carol '' when Ebenezer Scrooge, chastened by his night with the Spirits, leans out of his window and hails a passing urchin. From Wordnik.com. [Real Men Don't Shop Online] Reference
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