Lexicographical Neighbors of Riffraffs
Literary usage of Riffraffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets: And Other Tales by Ruth McEnery Stuart (1896)
"In his own arms he raised the limp little form from beneath the wheel, while the
shabby gray coats of a dozen " riffraffs," laid over the cannon-balls in ..."
2. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1849)
"With these riffraffs of the Alps was a German, who figures in "Margaret Ravenscroft"
under the name of Semler. We afterwards saw much of each other, ..."
3. Round the Globe in Old and New Paths by Sullivan Holman M'Collester (1889)
"Through grievous experience the riffraffs from abroad are beginning to realize
that in our country the only liberty to be enjoyed is the liberty to do right ..."
4. Round the Globe in Old and New Paths by Sullivan Holman McCollester (1893)
"Through grievous experience the riffraffs from abroad are beginning to realize
that in our country the only liberty to be enjoyed is the liberty to do right ..."
5. Public Men and Events from the Commencement of Mr. Monroe's Administration by Nathan Sargent (1875)
"... his description of Falstaff's men, of whom the pot-bellied lover of sack was
ashamed, was tame to this portraiture of General Crary and his " riffraffs. ..."
6. There and Back Again in Search of Beauty by James Augustus St. John (1853)
"With these riffraffs of the Alps was a German, who figures in " Margaret
Ravenscroft," under the name of Semler. We afterwards saw much of each other, ..."
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