I wasn't enough of a hanger-on to sink into a state of perpetual whining protest, or to commit suicide.

It was a weak and dissipated face, the face of a hanger-on of cafés, as Parks had saidof a loiterer along the boulevards, of a man without ambition, and capable of any depth of meanness and deceit.

"Drouet, while a mere hanger-on of the cafés of the boulevards, was not a criminal.

"The boy is a mere hanger-on.

Chet minded the billiard-room, which was mostly patronized Saturday nights, and did a meager business in fire insurance; but he was "so eternal lazy an' shifless," as Mrs. Kebble sharply asserted, that he was considered more a "hanger-on" of the establishment than its recognized head.

I ate coarse food, I was a hanger-on to the fringe of everything in life which appealed to me, fed intellectually on the crumbs of free libraries and picture galleries.

" "And Nick has been a great hanger-on of garrisons, and should know the use that I can make of his back.

Tate had been known as a hanger-on at the court of Charles, and as a feeble versifier and pamphleteer of the Tory school, before an alliance with Dryden gave him a certain degree of importance.

But wonder should always be watched with a wary eye; for he is apt to bring in his train a hanger-on called worship, who can do nothing but mischief here.

claqueur [Fr.]; clawback^, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on &c (servility) 886.

[Footnote 45: A hanger-on to noblemen, who are distinguished at the university by gold tassels to their caps; or in the language of the present day, a tuft-hunter.

BY THE HANGER-ON.

It has been said that for every bona fide miner there was at least one hanger-on or camp follower, who had no intention of doing any digging or washing, but who was smart enough to realize that a veritable thief's paradise would be built up by the hard workers.

He was a hanger-on, a sponge, a led captain.

All was alike strange, bearing in mind that this old man was a recipient of Lady Maulevrier's charity, a hanger-on upon a confidential servant, who might be supposed to be generously treated if he had the run of his teeth and the shelter of a decent garret.

But why doeschosemachinSmithson allow such a handsome hanger-on?

When the parts of a compound do not fully coalesce, as to-day, to-night, to-morrow; or when each retains its original accent, so that the compound has more than one, or one that is movable, as first-born, hanger-on, laughter-loving, garlic-eater, butterfly-shell, the hyphen should be inserted between them.

To any one observing us at this time it would have seemed that I was but a hanger-on, and a feeble imitator of Marshall.

He retired, became a poor hanger-on of the Court of St. Germains, and died early in the eighteenth centuryas well as I remember, 1705leaving an only son, hardly twelve years old, called by the strange but significant name of Ultor.

The story goes that her husband is a hanger-on of the System, and that she's been working in their interest, too.

looking upon me as a flattering hanger-on of the archiepiscopal palace, not understanding how otherwise, being so young, I could have hooked out this preferment that allows me to live in Toledo on seven duros a month!" Gabriel nodded his head, sympathising with the young priest's complaints.

Do you want me to be a supplement to youa hanger-on? Don't you see that you would make me ridiculous?" "Would I?" said Kate.

There was no reason whatever, beyond his own perverse ambition, why he should have come into rivalry with Tasso, yet he did so both as a writer of verses and as a hanger-on of court beauties.

An idle hanger-on whose only merit lay in his companionable mood or in his jests, was as welcome as a gifted connoisseur or a distinguished musician.

The very indifference of the bar-tender coupled with the evident desire of this hanger-on to form an acquaintance, served to reveal the real nature of "Mike's Place.