The prisoners were as heterogeneous as the contents of a rag-picker's auction.
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It might have been a rag-picker's dump-heap on a colossal scale.
3
This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a smile!
4
In this open-air society, it is the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes.
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His garments might have been discarded by a rag-picker.
Uso de rag-and-bone man en inglés
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The next day Anna fetched a rag-and-boneman who took the lot.
2
You'd think she got all her clothes from the rag-and-boneman.
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The industry is going through a revolution right now, from the rag-and-boneman through to the machine.
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The two men made an efficient partnership, if an ironic one: an engineer whose nature was to build, a rag-and-boneman whose passion was destruction.
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Perhaps there was something else behind the murder of the Rag-and-boneMan, something personal.
6
Bond looked at Hydt's face as the Rag-and-boneMan stared down at the victims.
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What could the Rag-and-boneMan possibly have in mind?
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The Rag-and-boneMan asked pleasantly, 'Will this do?'
9
As in rag-and-bonemen?' she asked.
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Galton and Simpson's Steptoe and Son, an even more miserable series concerning filthy, frustrated rag-and-bonemen, played to huge audiences from 1962 to 1974.