"Ragman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mother had redeemed it—a day after the fair—soon to be herself compressed and packed away in a pauper's coffin, awaiting in silence whatsoever Redemption might be. The best coat itself had long since been sold to a ragman, for Solomon, upon whose back it devolved, when Benjamin was so happily translated, could never be got to keep a best coat longer than a year, and when a best coat is degraded to every-day wear its attrition is much more than ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... all now, but in the next story, in case the pear doesn't fall off the apple tree and hit the ragman on the nose, I'll tell you about Flop ...
— Curly and Floppy Twistytail - The Funny Piggie Boys • Howard R. Garis
... it seemed to me. It was not a matter of choice but of necessity with me. My younger brother always escaped. By the time I had finished anything, there was no more of it. It went perforce to the ragman, if he would condescend ...
— South American Fights and Fighters - And Other Tales of Adventure • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... may be noted that the Ayrshire parish of Stevenston, the lands of which are said to have received the name in the twelfth century, lies within thirteen miles south-west of this place. The lands of Stevenson in Lanarkshire first mentioned in the next century, in the Ragman Roll, lie within ...
— Records of a Family of Engineers • Robert Louis Stevenson |
