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Secondly, how come on the day of the royal visit there wasn't one tramp or beggar to be found on the street?
After the tramp had washed his feet and his socks, he tip-toed over the gravel to the grass.
Blue armour was visible, and the tramp of armoured feet was just audible, even above the roaring storm.
But he took great pleasure in making me tramp all over the farm, up hill and down dale, and I was wearing a collar and tie.
This is an interesting one-day tramp for experienced trampers on a fine day.
I hold this household together and you better pay me back for what I've done for you and that tramp mother of yours.
Poorer and sadder, the couple reunite and have to make their way home on a tramp steamer.
When this tramp steamer went down all 42 on board were drowned, making this one of the worst WW2 shipping losses not caused by enemy action.
Rather than coming from academia, he began by running away to sea to become a junior officer on the tramp freighter Benlawers.
Having transferred to an old Lebanese tramp steamer, he became the ship's doctor, treating women who fainted in the heat.
Nevertheless, I will not fear some tramp that basically grabbed my heart and stepped on it as if it was some squish toy.
The Dream was a deceptively slow looking tramp freighter about 50 meters long and twenty meters across at her widest point.
British shipowners, however, had been slow to build tankers and in the tramp traders had lagged behind in adopting diesel propulsion.
Appropriately, he spends most of his days on tramp steamers, skiffs and barges.
Even in postwar America, nostalgia and wanderlust kept tramp wannabes hopping boxcars.
The movement required to tramp the rice and free the chaff is called jigging.
It will appear to be just another tramp freighter, but is actually the disguised personal vessel of Lord Isloth.
Hope would grow up in a kind and loving family, and forget her mother was ever a rough teenage tramp on the streets of Glasgow.
True, the exploits of a dying tramp and his smarter-than-Lassie dog do not strike one as immediately promising.
When I left school in 1959 and joined the Merchant Navy, the cabin on a tramp steamer seemed like my first real home.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It would echo the tramp of a fly that walked across a table, or repeat in New Orleans the prattle of a child in New York.
We struck up a partnership kind of casual, both being on the tramp together, and after a while we 'appened to be round about Reigate.
It was not easy, that backward tramp through the jungle, especially as night had fallen.
Similar to an old-fashioned tramp steamer service, Spliethoff intends to use the vessel to roam the Great Lakes for cargo.
This happened in 1935 when Halls of Newcastle built SS Embassage, a tramp steamer, which could achieve 10 knots on 17 tons of coal per day.
So she headed to Cardiff where she signed on as a stewardess on a tramp steamer alongside a crew of 30 men.
Anyone seeing the radars and electronic arrays on the USS Liberty knew this was not some Egyptian tramp steamer.
After a while I see a man coming across the stubble, and when he got close I see it was a tramp.
The main objection to the system, I contended, was the defraudment and robbery of the tramp.
Free ingress had thus been afforded to two stray ponies, a goat, and a tramp, who lay asleep in the grass.
Thus they gathered in a pell-mell of mad confusion, and the earth groaned under the tramp of men as the people sought their places.
Yet it did not seem so much the tramp of human footsteps as the clatter of sticks or the rattling of dry bones.
We should have had talk from Rebecca and Ivanhoe and the soft lady Rowena which would embarrass a tramp in our day.
The tramp of their boots upon the dry road seemed to asseverate nothing, nothing, nothing.
She was awakened by loud shouts and outcries, the tramp of horses' feet, and the baying of dogs.
I felt that I could hardly blame her if she got the idea that I was a worthless loafer or tramp.
I am one of the dispossessed, a sansculotte, a proletarian, or, in simpler phraseology addressed to your understanding, a tramp.
Naturally, myself a tramp, the tenor of the article was a protest against the maltreatment of the tramp.
Just at this moment a plashy tramp by the side of the bridge caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod.
As he was finishing his task, Tom, wearied with another brooding tramp, entered the house and went tiptoeing past the sitting room door.
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