A ragpicker or chiffonnier is someone who makes a living by rummaging through refuse in the streets to collect material for salvage.
1 The prisoners were as heterogeneous as the contents of a rag-picker 's auction.
2 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.
5 His garments might have been discarded by a rag-picker .
6 Then I am not likely to get drunk in Amboise, unless your rag-picker pours the wine.
7 The mind of the king is his cupboard; if he be a rag-picker , it is his basket.
8 Having finished dressing, I unlocked the door of the stuffy little cabin and called the old rag-picker .
9 The old rag-picker shook his head and made a sign with his outspread fingers expressive of contempt.
10 He lived on alms and slept in one of those rag-picker 's huts near the barrier de Ternes.
11 Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker with her basket on her back.
12 In her own kitchen, the rag-picker 's culinary gleanings formed the basis of a limited but nourishing diet.
13 He looked like a disreputable image carved in mahogany, and arrayed in the sittings of a rag-picker 's store.
14 Middle-class America declared the rag-picker too lazy for "real work," or accused her of ulterior motives.
15 There is in this city a rag-picker so wealthy that he can afford to drink wine every day.
16 I do not guarantee the rag-picker .
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