An Introduction to Hope and Despair
I had survived for a while by working in a local factory cleaning the machinery and making a sixpence a day, enough for a daily meal but not enough for a room so i lived on the streets of london, little better than an urchin or pick pocket except
Our Lives
They often came down to the beach together on saturday mornings just to relax, often doing crazy stuff like catching sea urchins with their bare hands, and seeing who could keep their balance the longest with each wave that hit them, or even exploring rock
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To Breakfast
He didn't particularly like arresting children, street urchins or not it just felt wrong to him. that said, if there ever was one child on the streets that he felt deserved to be locked up for a while, it was certainly this one.
Head in the Water, Feet on the Ground (Otter TF)
Watch where yer going ya wretched lil' urchin!!" the cries of the butcher cut through eli's daytime fantasy like a hot cleaver.
Showing the Ropes - V5 - Awakenings
The ones she had found were excellent scroungers, and she was a well known face among the urchins, domestics, and underlings of telvin's nest. mainly because of how she fed them.
Adventures in Misadventure CH. 2
"go away you little urchin!" she snapped, slapping her tail up and down, and jostling the child off of her. the fox didn't seem shaken.
Ander - Chapter 4, Subchapter 24
Banno was still thinking this as the urchin turned around and simply walked out the door. his tail was dragging along the floor, but that was just an act. the little runt was jubilant on the inside, he could tell.
Throwaways
People are more quick to condemn a street urchin for stealing something actually worth money than they are to condemn the male who wants to get his knob polished in a back alley by a thing that used to be worth more than money to someone...
Personal Space
Slavery may have been gone but it had left its marks, as the street urchins roaming the favelas attested. without work, many had turned to crime to survive, and local authorities had become correspondingly unforgiving.
5. You're Probably High
I won't have you gallivanting about looking like some sort of urchin that doesn't know any better. when we get home you will scrub those elbows clean, is that understood?"_ hrvalye sighed, _"yes, mother.
Showing the Ropes - V8 - Integrating
urchins moved through the crowd, some offering services, others committing larceny, and yet others participating in that time-honored wealth transfer, charity work. granted they were the receivers, but charity none the less.
Ch. 22 -- Embassy
Within six months, street urchins in the capital had all but vanished, and the number of arrests for vagrancy had dropped to near zero.