"He had refused to fine anyone more than once a year for violations of the Sunday liquor laws and had accepted straw bail from John Hinsley and other disreputable figures," writes Melton.

He had rarely seen a more disreputable figure than that which had risen from the heather--dissolute in garment, wild of hair, muddy beyond belief in countenance.

He had scarcely alighted upon the other side when his eyes fell upon the disreputable figures of two tramps stretched out upon their backs and snoring audibly.

But he realized that Jay Cooke wanted him to know of his friendship with Cameron, a disreputable figure, perhaps, but a great power in Pennsylvania.

XVIII DORRIN TRIES TO match the map in his head, with its neat drawings, to the weathered, almost abandoned-looking buildings, the muddy street, and the ragged and disreputable figures lounging by the end of the pier.

He must have been one of the strangest, if not the most disreputable, figures ever let into the offices of the Chancellor of Germany.

Their links with the occupiers granted them many contacts with disreputable figures like Joseph Joanovici.

F'lar looked about for one of the Hold women, his glance sliding over the first disreputable figure who had started to mop up the spilled food.