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Years and misfortune had added to her dignity, and Jonah felt his shop and success and money slip away from him, leaving him the street-arab sprung from the gutter before this aristocrat.

From Jonah by Stone, Louis

It was this city that had given him life on bitter terms, a misshapen and neglected street-arab, scouring the streets for food, of less account than a stray dog.

From Jonah by Stone, Louis

And they say he began life as a street-arab, selling papers and sleeping in the gutter.

From Jonah by Stone, Louis

He was a little ragged street-arab, as tall as a boot, his forehead hidden under a queer mop of yellow hair.

From Ten Tales by Learned, Walter

A boy, εὐφύης as I have described, brought up as a street-arab, would only so far profit by it as to be slightly less vicious and disgusting than his companions.

From Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College by Benson, Arthur Christopher