ragman
ragpicker , also: rag-picker

It's the Ragman, and he has things to show her.

The name of Ragman has been sometimes confined to the record of 1296.

Rory Regan is a ragman, doing good in his community by buying used items from people who need money.

The derivation of the word ragman is described in several mixed and conflicting accounts.

On some sides a ragman manages and co-ordinates the team's kit or costume.

But those who carried the stone away were driven mad by the journey, and they claimed that the Ragman would return one day.

My father was an illiterate Russian immigrant, a ragman, the lowest rung on the economic scale.

Ragman - 8 months ago Having been in the music industry all I can say is, That's show biz!

Enraged, Kane attacks the Ragman, pushing him back against the standing stone.

In one scene, for instance, Clara enters the clock and encounters the Ragman.

"If it's the ragman, send him away, ye mind!"

Karl had catnapped beside the ragman off and on during the night, stirring at the least sound coming down the alley.

"As a house cleaner, fella, I'll bet you'll make some ragman a nice wife.

Just a couple of seedy ragman types, slumped and snoring under the fragrant oleanders.

The Ragman can draw upon the physical powers of any number of the corrupted souls that make up his suit.

Boy, when those generals stamped in, you looked fit to be put in a sack and given to the ragman!"

"You villain ragman Take me back.

One of the earliest sources for surnames in Scotland is the Ragman Roll.

Some Counts of the Counties are listed in the Ragman Rolls.

Ragman has appeared in the Justice League Unlimited spin-off comic book.

But it wasn't the ragman.

He name appears twice on the 1296 Ragman Rolls for Forfarshire.

Ragman is sometimes compared to the other nighttime defender of Gotham City, Batman.

Ragman appears in issue 14 of Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

Ragman and Other Cries of Faith (1984, 2004)

They all stared at Mary as if she were a ragpicker come to take tea with them.

With the shirt and comb, she looked like a ragpicker of all nations.

The clothing they wore were things cast off by a ragpicker.

"You look like a ragpicker," Selina said when she opened the door.

The ragpicker began to flicker, like an image poorly received on a video screen.

The ragpicker disappeared on the instant, leaving only mocking laughter behind.

"Thou art poorly suited to speak of things that cannot be," the ragpicker said softly.

By the side of the road, gunnysack slung over his shoulder, stood the ragpicker.

The ragpicker grinned up at him, displaying several missing teeth. "

"The key is within thee," the ragpicker assured him.

He sold most of these in bulk to a ragpicker, and he gave away or destroyed the rest.

The trail curved, hiding the ragpicker from view.

Indeed, the ragpicker was shaking his head.

But from this trashed language the author, like an inspired ragpicker, fashions new insights.

Entire blocks of dead buildings shadowing the occasional ragpicker or stray child.

"Why, naught," the ragpicker said softly, but with too great an air of innocence. "

It was the ragpicker, of course.

Trav retreated a pace, not wanting to be near the ragpicker.

It was an old ragpicker woman who was busy raking in the gutters.

A ragpicker, a porter, his landlady, even a policeman who tells him to mind his own business.

The ragpicker swung the bag off his shoulder, reached in, and pulled out a golden chain with a bauble on the end.

"They run everything, they corrupt everything," says the Ragpicker.

He brandished it toward the ragpicker.

"Thrice before have I exhorted thee," the ragpicker reminded.

"You couldn't sell it to a ragpicker, even was you to wash it."