scatterling

The four who lived there -- "Bat and Zilpic, Maunder and Insie, of the Gill" -- had nothing to do with, and little to say to, any of the scatterling folk about them, across the blue distance of the moor.

Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale 1862

But for the rest, I was sometime a king, and am now a scatterling. '

Ixion In Heaven Benjamin Disraeli 1842

I had not to trudge these dusty roads on foot with a broken-down good-for-nothing scatterling; I trod rich carpets, and slept under silken curtains.

What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

I had not to trudge these dusty roads on foot with a broken-down good-for - nothing scatterling; I trod rich carpets, and slept under silken curtains.

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

He trembled at the thought of Arthur meeting this strange, wild, exasperated scatterling -- perhaps on the morrow -- in the very height of his passions.

Night and Morning, Volume 2 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

He trembled at the thought of Arthur meeting this strange, wild, exasperated scatterling -- perhaps on the morrow -- in the very height of his passions.

Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

I found it grovelling along the ground, tangled and wild, and twining round every worthless weed, and it struck me as an emblem of myself: a mere scatterling, running to waste and uselessness.

Tales of a Traveller 1824

I found it grovelling along the ground, tangled and wild, and twining round every worthless weed, and it struck me as an emblem of myself: a mere scatterling, running to waste and uselessness.

Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821

Maunder and Insie, of the Gill” — had nothing to do with, and little to say to, any of the scatterling folk about them, across the blue distance of the moor.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Knowest thou not, scatterling! that the penalty is death? "

The Pilgrims of the Rhine Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838