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Example sentences for "tramps"

Lexicographically close words:
trample; trampled; tramples; trampling; tramplings; tramroad; trams; tramway; tramways; tran
  1. In the High School she was dignified and sedate, but on our tramps she would frequently skip like a young lamb, and frisk and gambol down there in the country.

  2. I remember those two and those tramps exceeding well--nor can I think with but four years gone that the two themselves have forgotten.

  3. We started on these tramps at six in the morning.

  4. They have not forgotten the Butte High School, nor the class of ninety-nine, nor the tramps we went, nor their tyrant, me.

  5. As for the tramps Healy said he had met, no trace of them could be found, nor did anyone appear to have seen such a party.

  6. He believed he had met some tramps on the road that night--two men and a woman--but he had not particularly noticed them, and he did not recollect meeting anybody else.

  7. I tramps up to New York, works my way over to England, tramps and peddles, and gits enough dough to pay my way back.

  8. Over a million persons passed through the municipal night shelters in Berlin during the last year; and there are still admittedly some 5,000 tramps in Germany.

  9. And without that regulation you will have rich men and tramps all over again.

  10. I admit there may be a band of tramps in that house.

  11. Tramps would be very likely to remember such a peculiar chap as Happy Harry, and they will tell me where they had last seen him.

  12. But no tramps had been arrested in the last month, and no one had seen anything of a tramp like Happy Harry or three mysterious men in an automobile.

  13. He located several tramps in country lock-ups, where they had been sent for begging or loitering, but none of them knew Happy Harry or had ever heard of a tramp answering his description.

  14. Maybe a lot ob tramps stays in it, an' dat's where dis man were goin'.

  15. I hadn't noticed any tramps around here, and I've been in these woods nearly all day.

  16. The housekeeper, when consulted, said that no tramps had applied in the last few days.

  17. Tramps who don't like to work, and who have a jolly disposition, also those who ask for money and have designs tattooed on their hands, are very common.

  18. As a matter of fact, the tramps had bolted without giving the Little Admiral even a sight of their heels.

  19. The tramps had evidently shown fight, and a terrific encounter had taken place.

  20. The Daylight is just coming in, Phil," said Captain Davis, as I came in to supper after the tramps of the second day in the city.

  21. Sea and Shore; or, The Tramps of a Traveller.

  22. I guess wandering tramps must have taken them.

  23. If the train was stolen by tramps we'd better get another dog, Daddy Brown, to keep them away.

  24. This the tramps seemed to construe as a favorable sign.

  25. In a few seconds they reached the spot just in time to see the two tramps who had molested the girls making off.

  26. But to her horror the two tramps followed instantly.

  27. If we find tramps have it, we'll get a policeman.

  28. The tramps who took our ice cream are in there, all right!

  29. Maybe it's a stone dem careless tramps put in.

  30. These women tramps bring death on their infants through exposure.

  31. Tramps don't come showing themselves on snow-lighted, open lawns, in the face and eyes of the front windows: they hide themselves in obscure hedges and byways.

  32. Those tramps lay their hands on anything; nothing comes amiss to them; they are as bad as gipsies.

  33. If you take to upholding tramps and infants dying in sheds, goodness knows what you'll come to in time.

  34. I know a tramp when I sees one: and the worst of all tramps is them that do the tricks with clean hands and snow-white cap-borders.

  35. It is perfectly safe: there are no tramps or gypsies about here.

  36. Avoid localities where there is a possibility of tramps or undesirable characters of any description, and do not wander from camp alone or unaccompanied by one of the directors.

  37. There's no use leaving it there for tramps to come along and steal it.

  38. I suppose," she said angrily, "that it does not matter if tramps get me.

  39. Both of these orders of tramp are of a very robust habit; let the hard-working labourer at whose cottage-door they prowl and beg, have the ague never so badly, these tramps are sure to be in good health.

  40. Who can be familiar with any rustic highway in summer-time, without storing up knowledge of the many tramps who go from one oasis of town or village to another, to sell a stock in trade, apparently not worth a shilling when sold?

  41. As to the sort of immorality that is most dreaded by schoolmistresses and duennas, there is not a word in the book to suggest that tramps know even what it means.

  42. That, I suppose, is why Mr. Davies tramps no more, but writes verses and saves money to print them out of eight shillings a week.

  43. For instance, all tramps in America travel on the railroad, whether they walk or take free rides.

  44. What a glorious time we had; the people catered for us as though we were the only tramps in the whole world, and as if they considered it providential that we should call at their houses for assistance.

  45. With this end in view we walked towards the passenger depot, which, Brum informed us, was visited by the marshal several times a day, so that he might the better accost such tramps as were going through that town.

  46. For," said he, "as all tramps are of that opinion, therefore the outskirts are begged too much and the centre of the town too little.

  47. At any rate, American tramps know well that neither the engineer nor fireman, his faithful attendant, will inform the conductor or brakesman of their presence on a train.

  48. We were used to tramps of all kinds, but still this description hardly suited the person now closely approaching us.

  49. That's the way tramps travel from city to city.

  50. Tramps aren't often welcome visitors, even in a mining camp, you know.

  51. Gather up your bedding, Jessie, and stack it in the corner, else Myra's aunt will think tramps camped here instead of civilized human beings.

  52. We tramps have a way of finding out things, you know.

  53. Tramps is no good, anyway, and if you don't chase yourselves out of this I'll run ye in.

  54. But it doesn't cost tramps much for expenses," she took the thought away from him.

  55. And that's what tramps are--open air cranks," she continued.

  56. But during Arthur's absence it had been suffered to go to decay, for Frank cared little for lovers or picnics, and less for the tramps who often slept there at night, and for whom it came at last to be called the Tramp House.

  57. The very smoke rising from the tall funnels of tramps and ocean liners catches the light, reflects it, and add another beauty to the aspect.

  58. Heavy-laden tramps thump onward to Odessa to return with corn or wool.

  59. After this I constantly caught myself peering into the faces of the tramps I would meet in the street.

  60. My intimacy with Muffles dated from a visit I had made him a year before, when I stopped in one of my sketching-tramps to get something cooling.

  61. Tom Tramps Down McDonald Creek in a Chinook Wind, and Reaches Shelter Almost Exhausted 322 XXX.

  62. Listen to what Mark Twain says in his More Tramps Abroad:-- After all, in the matter of certain physical patent rights there is only one England.

  63. We are a friendly lot, we tramps be," and so on.

  64. Whether it is their lonely life or otherwise I cannot say, but it seems that some tramps are addicted to composing poetry.

  65. Tramps are fond of addressing any one as "captain"; I presume they find it pleases.

  66. Since then my donations to tramps have ceased.


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