wastrel
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So, bloody but unbeaten, weak and spent but undaunted, he waited for the Wastrel to spring up.
From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold
I'm thinking that the Wastrel was one day a celebrated professional; and the women were partly the cause of his fall.
From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold
The Wastrel must have gone to the bottom near by, for incoming tides from time to time deposited on my shore strange and satirical scraps of flotsam.
From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville
He tore it down just as the Wastrel rose, wavering slightly.
From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold
And so on, past Mother Ross's shop, past the Sylvester Arms, to the right by Kirby's smithy, over the Wastrel by the Haughs, to await his master at the edge of the Stony Bottom.
From Bob, Son of Battle by Ollivant, Alfred
Vocabulary lists containing wastrel
A Room of One's Own
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Vocabulary Video Contest (2013) - List 2
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Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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