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gamin
1. the sparrow; the child is called the gamin
2. necessary, and you have the gamin
3. The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition
4. The gamin called her Mademoiselle Muche—"hide yourself
5. The whole of the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the gamin
6. This word gamin was printed for the first time, and reached popular speech through the literary tongue, in 1834
7. A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin
8. The gamin is born a tiler as he is born a mariner
9. when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of him
10. "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them
11. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le gendarme," said the gamin
12. One of the things that the gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be left-handed renders you very enviable
13. and the result is a highly dramatic situation which once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the eleusiac chant of the Panathenaea, and in it one encounters again the ancient Evohe
14. , helped the gamin, finished the pear, and gave the child a louis, saying: "The pear is on that also
15. "19 The gamin loves uproar
16. Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly
17. Homer repeats himself eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin
18. The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent
19. He plays in the gutter, and straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the giant
20. The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a
21. Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of the Chateau-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a heart absolutely sombre and empty
22. She had recognized the gamin
23. Then the gamin emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the dark, as the latter stood there motionless
24. And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very day, Babet, having been transferred to La Conciergerie, had made his escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police office
25. This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin
26. It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection of a distant street lamp, that the gamin guided his two "brats
27. The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining very hard
28. The gamin directed his steps towards the flue, which it was easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof
29. Gavroche was a gamin of letters
30. What has any one done to that gamin?"
31. The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is afraid of waking
32. The gamin, at the sound of Marius' voice, ran up to him with
33. The whole barricade gave vent to a cry; but there was something of Antaeus in that pygmy; for the gamin to touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth; Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began to sing:
34. "Often, as I lay in my favorite position on the divan, the bell would ring and we would he honored by a visit from the printer's boy Adolphe, a little fellow in a blue blouse, the true type of Paris gamin
35. He was an amusing cross between a tricky little Paris gamin and a real child, and he hit off the characteristics of the various writers with as keen a touch of actuality as he could put into his stories of how many centimes he had won that morning at 'craps' from his friend Pierre
36. "You remember that funny little chap with the crafty eye, his talent for gambling, and his admiration for the girl of 'La Prunelle'? A queer little mixture this child who has himself alone to look to for livelihood and care, the typical race of the Paris streets, the modified gamin from 'Les Miserables