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Definition of Ragpickers
1. ragpicker [n] - See also: ragpicker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragpickers
Literary usage of Ragpickers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anecdotes and Examples Illustrating the Catholic Catechism by Francis Spirago (1904)
"A QUEEN REBUKES ragpickers We must not allow animals to be tormented. One day
the queen of the Belgians, when driving out, saw two ragpickers mercilessly ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Impudence — Outcasts of the Bowery — Beer Gardens — Slums of the Bowery —
Night Scenes on the Streets — Pickpockets and Crooks — ragpickers and their ..."
3. Patriotism and Popular Education ...: The Whole Discourse Being in the Form by Henry Arthur Jones (1920)
"Plainly because we have been producing and training school teachers and ragpickers
in wrong proportions, having regard to the amounts and kinds of work ..."
4. Preliminary Report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1912 by Robert Ferdinand Wagner, George Moses Price, Holbrook Fitz-John Porter, Violet Leonard Pike, Pauline Dorothea Goldmark, Edward Ewing Pratt (1912)
"purify them before they are handled by the men, and before they run them through
the ragpickers, and before the machines pick them up, ..."
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