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Examples
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Aladdin is a street-urchin who lives in a large and busy town long ago with his faithful monkey friend Abu.
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Jenny Humphrey reinvents herself sophomore year with a Joan Jett haircut, an haute street-urchin style, and makeup that makes her look as though she's been punched in both eyes, and the fashion world suddenly stands up and takes notice.
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No street-urchin dared carry more than a couple of pennies on his person, and very few of them had a safe place to cache money.
The Eagle And The Nightingale Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.
Lace Shirley Conran 1982
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He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.
Lace Shirley Conran 1982
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He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.
Lace Shirley Conran 1982
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He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.
Lace Shirley Conran 1982
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He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.
Lace Shirley Conran 1982
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He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.
Lace Shirley Conran 1982
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His fingers moved restlessly, like a street-urchin surveying an automobile and longing to blow its horn.
Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane Roy Rockwood
bilby commented on the word street-urchin
See citation on rag-picker.
September 5, 2008