Possible death mask of Shakespeare found in ragpicker’s shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off to Class « So Many Books] Reference

The ragpicker's basket is the hyphen between rags and paper, and the ragpicker is the hyphen between the beggar and the philosopher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference

These things cannot be said for the ragpicker of Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference

With the shirt and comb, she looked like a ragpicker of all nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

The Paris ragpicker is seldom seen in the streets by day: his most profitable season is the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference

The scavenger and the ragpicker, being the lowest grade of blousards, do not always rise to the dignity even of a blouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference

But what if the artist were to involve the locals, auction off the works and donate the proceeds back to the ragpicker community?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Waste Land,' Documentary on Brooklyn Artist and Rio's Garbage Pickers (VIDEO)] Reference

And there would be years more of this, of being beaten and humiliated, of being bullied and treated as less than the lowest ragpicker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brightly Burning]

Well, the liver is the master-ragpicker of the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals] Reference

But to be a ragpicker -- ah, there's something to strive for!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ptomaine Street] Reference

Tomaso, the ragpicker in the farthest rear cellar, to the Signor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Tenements] Reference

Teen girl who fled home found as ragpicker 3 months later in Mumbai.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

On Monday, one such ragpicker and a roadside vendor will be treated as heroes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Covenant Zone] Reference

"I'll give you four pennies for your A-B-C book," said a ragpicker who stood by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures of Pinocchio] Reference

The three associates chorused their protestation, but the ragpicker paid no heed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quest] Reference

The comparison was singular, but it was apt; he was, indeed, the ragpicker of physiology.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference

Isodore, the protagonist, becomes a drunkard "too disgusting to be touched by a ragpicker.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

And now, alas! this popular preacher was a drunken ragpicker in the streets of Philadelphia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Negro Church] Reference

They waited a while and soon a ragpicker hove into view, bearing an empty sack and headed for Madrid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quest] Reference

The hair of their heads and faces grew long and shaggy, while their garments would have disgusted a ragpicker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of the Wolf] Reference

At intervals, while he rested, I took the book bought from the ragpicker of Soissons, and read passages from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference

There's Vicky Roy, 21 a one-time ragpicker who is now an accomplished photographer wowing international audiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

I may know that a man can hardly read or write, and that his father was a ragpicker till one day he picked up bank-notes for a million.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malbone: an Oldport romance] Reference

Before relegating them to the attic or ragpicker, would it not be prudent and pleasant to preserve the laces with which they were trimmed?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference

Yesterday’s ragpicker or coal heaver was today’s millionaire a new word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Bridge] Reference

"This ragpicker told me that she had met her in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody's Girl (En Famille)] Reference

"Fabry bought it from that ragpicker to whom you sold it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody's Girl (En Famille)] Reference

It was her own donkey that she sold to the ragpicker who found her. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody's Girl (En Famille)] Reference

The ragpicker looked up with a timid smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The ragpicker turned out to be a book dealer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference

It's two on you, you bloody-handed ragpicker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates] Reference

(Walter Benjamin's ragpicker).    From Wordnik.com.  [Never Neutral] Reference

"I'm no ragpicker.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie's Busy Days] Reference

He wants to be a ragpicker -- a real one. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ptomaine Street] Reference