gallows-bird

Hath this gallows-bird aught remaining wherewith to buy slave-girls?

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Quoth Zurayk, who returned at the sound, Thy perfidy hath come to light, O gallows-bird!

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

What's this to you, you gallows-bird, you crow's meat?

Satyricon 2007

“What a gallows-bird!” said Pere Canquoelle to his neighbor Monsieur Pillerault.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

“He is a gallows-bird that will get on in the world,” said Etienne, careless whether the wily schemer overheard the remark or not, as he shut the door of the box.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

“Why, thou gallows-bird — thou jail-rat — thou friend of the hangman and his customers!” replied Foster, “hast thou the assurance to expect countenance from any one whose neck is beyond the compass of a Tyburn tippet?”

Kenilworth 2004

What's this to you, you gallows-bird, you crow's meat?

The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

"Dick Malone, my gallows-bird, I arrest you in the name of the law."

Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood Prentiss Ingraham

"You're to sell, you mean, you gallows-bird," returned Jasper.

Adrien Leroy Charles Garvice

What's this to you, you gallows-bird, you crow's meat?

The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio 20-66 Petronius Arbiter