One day, about noon, a clay-soiled urchin brought a letter addressed to herself: she guessed that it was some appeal for mercy from the Prices, and wished that her father had been at home.
" There he was, sure enough, a small urchin with a little bundle upon his shoulder, toiling slowly up the hill.
David Blythe had sent his horse and buggy to meet them, and the urchin who had brought it slipped away with a sympathetic grin, leaving them to the delight of driving alone to their new home through the radiant evening.
Retribution may come from any voice; the hardest, cruelest, most imbruted urchin at the street-corner can inflict it; surely help and pity are rarer things, more needful for the righteous to bestow.
Meanwhile the tall girl gave a shrill cry, and presently came running up the boy whom Maggie had passed as he was sleeping,—a rough urchin about the age of Tom.
There was not an urchin in school but was perishing to have a glimpse of it, but the chance never came.
On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it.
" At this point, an urchin threw a stone into the water.
Having lost his father in the World Trade Center bombing, Oskar becomes a street urchin playing a tambourine.
If you see sea urchin, or other seafood you might not be totally familiar with that strays from the four major fish (tuna, salmon, cod, or sea bass) -- you know it's a good spot.
Having lost his father in the World Trade Center bombing, Oskar becomes a street urchin playing a tambourine.
" At this point, an urchin threw a stone into the water.
" At this point, an urchin threw a stone into the water.
On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it.
' "Out of the third glass rises a little winged urchin, who cannot certainly be called an angel child, for there is goblin blood in his veins, and he has the spirit of a goblin—not wishing to hurt or harm you, indeed, but very ready to play off tricks upon you.
