street Arab

He gave a shrill whistle, on which a street Arab led across a four-wheeler and opened the door.

You could call Margaret a Street Arab, and she was that too.

Even more troublesome were ethnic terms, like "street Arab" and "Jew down."

As his debtor went into the house, the street Arab heard him laugh and say, "To the devil with your gown.

Do you suppose for one moment I could be jealous of a street Arab like your Roxanna?

He had the face of the quintessential street Arab, the endless survivor, knowing, tireless, patient, and amoral.

"There was once a small street arab" (Hassan with Chorus)

"He's in all right, Mr. Holmes," cried a small street Arab, running up to us.

The barefoot street Arab clutched onto the reins of the tired horse as if they were his hope of heaven, as perhaps they were.

A friend of Verlaine's, less than impressed, described him as "a tall, gawky young man, very thin, with the look of a rather fierce street Arab".

At the age of 11 he played a street Arab in Frederick Bowyer's fairy play The Windmill Man.

There was something too roguish and wanton in his face, a look too like that of a schoolboy or a street Arab, to have survived much cudgelling.

Five minutes had not elapsed before a street arab appeared, looked him up and down several times, and then said: 'Name o' Burnley?'

As the two men crossed the square, Gideon gave only slight notice to an unusually tall Street Arab lounging against the Franklin statue.

He sings a song about "a small street Arab", and when it is over, he tells the Sultan that it is the story of his own life.

I therefore organized my street Arab detective corps, and sent them systematically to every cab proprietor in London until they ferreted out the man that I wanted.

Horatio Alger's book, Tattered Tom; or, The Story of a Street Arab (1871), is an early example of the appearance of street children in literature.

And here is the aggravated form--heard a ragged street Arab say it to a comrade: 'I was a-ask'n' Tom whah you was a-sett'n' at.'

In the tapu grove he found one fellow stealing breadfruit, cheerful and impudent as a street arab; and it was only on a menace of exposure that he showed himself the least discountenanced.

That scene came from the very end of the picture, when God decides that the young street Arab has done enough good deeds to redeem himself, and accepts His errant son into the Kingdom of Heaven.

A pert little vagabond-- street Arab in a double sense--promenaded the town barefoot, carrying an odd slipper in his hand, and calling on all men by the love of God and the face of God and the sake of God to give him a moozoonah towards the cost of its fellow.

It should not be confused with street Arab, a derogatory term for "urban vagabond, homeless urchin," as used in 1887 in Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes tale: "I therefore organized my street Arab detective corps," which later evolved into fans styling themselves "the Baker Street Irregulars."