The luckiest had only two urchins upon their knees.
At the same moment an instinct seemed to warn the struggling urchins.
There were the nursemaids--the babies--the beggars--the ragged urchins and the venders of the street, with their raucous cries rending the air.
How he managed with one arm to keep the baby from squirming on to the floor, the plate from upsetting, and to feed the hungry urchins who stood in a row with open mouths, like young birds, was past my comprehension.
The naked, tawny bodies of the crouching urchins blended so nicely at that hour, with the withered herbage, that at first it seemed as if the earth had, in truth, swallowed up their forms; though when surprise permitted Duncan to bend his look more curiously about the spot, he found it everywhere met by dark, quick, and rolling eyeballs.