rag-gatherer

At Maryhill, in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, about a year ago, when an epidemic of measles and whooping-cough was prevalent, two mothers took advantage, for the carrying out of this superstition, of the presence in the village of an ass which drew the cart of a travelling rag-gatherer.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

One man -- probably a rag-gatherer -- brought two little children in his creel, and tossed them into the water as carelessly as if they had been blind kittens.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

“I ask pardon,” says the first magistrate of the capital, addressing himself to a rag-gatherer; “I ask your pardon, if I am angry; but your conduct is so reprehensible, that I cannot speak to you otherwise.”

Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859

"I ask pardon," says the first magistrate of the capital, addressing himself to a rag-gatherer; "I ask your pardon, if I am angry; but your conduct is so reprehensible, that I cannot speak to you otherwise."

Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Baden Powell 1819

It is a political comedy, in which the rag-gatherer and the king express themselves in language suitable to their stations.

Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806

303 In Paris, in 1820, the necessary tools of a rag-gatherer cost 6-¼ francs.

System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855