“But I look forward to the time when the technology becomes cheap and common enough for a little guttersnipe like me to afford one.”

“But I have been taking lessons from every guttersnipe and old good-for-nought in the town.”

“What would the guttersnipe have learnt as a graduate, except to embrace a Saxon because he was the other half of an Anglo-Saxon?”

“They were feared and reviled as street rats and guttersnipes, vagrants and beggars.”

“How many times do I have to respond to the ravings of guttersnipes?”

“In polls, fewer than one in five Americans say lawyers make a big contribution to society or display high ethical standards putting the profession even lower than such guttersnipes as journalists.”