Gamins

One knows that; but the wretchedest of its "gamins" knows that it is something else also. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

There was no mention made of murder, of an underground alliance with the 'gamins' of Paris, the dregs of humanity, prisoners, men skilled in the art of secret death. " ❋ Unknown (1906)

A few gamins, however, were around, in their eyes a suppressed eagerness in anticipation of wonderful and exciting things to happen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then quiet again, though the gamins had startled and listened, like young deer, at the sound. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like we're supposed to believe that among these "gosses" and "gamins" boys he picked out a "boy" of forty. ❋ Suzanne (2009)

The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each other are very various. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great deal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known, but Papavoine is. ❋ Unknown (2008)

En y repensant, j'avais qu'a sortir toutes les maladies de gamins comme la varicelle mais bon ... ❋ Pinku-tk (2007)

Yonder go a crowd of bare-legged fishermen; there is the town idiot, mocking a woman who is screaming “Fleuve du Tage,” at an inn-window, to a harp, and there are the little gamins mocking HIM. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This was a favorite technique during the Victorian period, where Victor Hugo had no problem with opening Notre Dame de Paris with a hundred-page infodump on medieval Paris, and fill 150 pages of Les Miserables with successive lectures on (1) the nunneries of Paris, (2) the gamins of Paris, and (3) French revolutionaries of the 1920s. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2006)

J'ai eu l'droit a des insultes de parents, de gamins effrayés ... ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

J'aurais pu tuer c gamins en foncant dedans a pleine vitesse. ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

J'suis pret pour les vendange j'vous l'dis!! j'passe mes journees a m'baisser porter m'mettre a genoux sur la pointe des pieds courir d'un rayon a l'autre hurler apres les vieux qui sont a moitié sourd et empecher les gamins de fouiller les cartons des invendu!!! ❋ Pinku-tk (2004)

It rather astonished me to hear instrumental sounds issue forth in harmony from such woolly-headed youngsters; to hear well-known French music at this isolated port, to hear negro boys, that a few months ago knew nothing beyond the traditions of their ignorant mothers, stand forth and chant Parisian songs about French valor and glory, with all the sangfroid of gamins from the purlieus of ❋ Henry Morton (2004)

And in the days of our fathers, the gamins of London amused themselves every Sunday by pitched battles on Primrose Hill, and the fields about Marylebone and St. Pancras. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Cairo — they are as bad as the gamins of Paris and London — catch sight of him than they began to scream with laughter at the sight of the “Hindi (Indian) in arms,” till, like a vagrant owl pursued by a flight of larks, he ran back into the Caravanserai. ❋ Unknown (2003)

En plus le pire elle m'a dit que Sakura ct pour les gamins mais que moi comme gt une pervers j'voyais du cul partout! ❋ Pinku-tk (2003)

The latter were swarming with a tattered, ragged, bare-footed, bare-legged assemblage of old women, of gamins, and sailors. ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)