77 examples of hangers-on in sentences

Here, all along the river, and south to Shoshone Land, live the clans who owned the earth, fallen into the deplorable condition of hangers-on.

At lottery times, he used to be troubled with begging visits from certain improvident hangers-on, who had risked their all in buying shares of an unlucky number.

Narayan Singh distributed largesse to about a hundred touts and hangers-on and we splashed off toward the hotel in two open landaus, through streets six inches deep in water except at the cross-gutters, where the horses jumped for fear of losing soundings.

The latter paid no attention at first, evidently thinking the man one of the many hangers-on about a circus ground.

Other sheds hold the servants and hangers-on, the horses and mules; and as the establishment grows, more will be added, and the house itself will probably expand laterally, like a peripheral Greek temple, by rows of posts, probably of palm-stems thatched over with wooden shingle or with the leaves of the Timit {233} palm.

There were two classes among themthe rich landlords and capitalists, who prospered as the rich at Rome prospered, and the poor who were weighed down by debt or were pushed out of their farms by slave-labour, or were hangers-on of the rich in the towns and eager for distributions of land.

Princes and Government officials also travel with an enormous following, mainly composed of hangers-on and riff-raff, who plunder and devastate as ruthlessly as a band of Kurd or Turkoman robbers.

It seems to have been really intended as some set-off against other pensions bestowed upon various hangers-on of the Scotch prime minister, Bute.

When I speak of the Roman people, I do not mean the class of hangers-on upon the foreigners, but the Trasteverini and the inhabitants of the provinces and mountains.

From the proprietor of the place and the hangers-on he had no trouble in getting the information he wanted without arousing their suspicions.

All in the inclosed space stood and moved a mass of careless men, the lawyers, hangers-on, and all who fatten upon crimecareless, laughing, nudging, talking openly to the women of the street.

But the slaves betrayed the secret; and the lady employed certain gay and profligate young men, who were hangers-on of her own, to conceal themselves somewhere in the baths, and pounce upon Caelius's emissary with the poison in his possession.

B, C, E, G, I, K, M, O, Q, S, V are all thrown out in spite of the wide popularity of B and C. B and C, we have supposed, are the second and third favourites, and yet they go out in favour of Y, of whom nobody has heard before, some mere hangers-on of A's.

Thus we write fathers-in-law, sons-in-law, knights-errant, courts-martial, cousins-german, hangers-on, comings-in, goings-out, goings-forth, varying the first; and manhaters, manstealers, manslayers, maneaters, mandrills, handfuls, spoonfuls, mouthfuls, pailfuls, outpourings, ingatherings, downsittings, overflowings, varying the last.

The four received candy cigars and became mere hangers-on of the rich, lost to all self-respect, fawning, falsely solicitous, brightly expectant.

The majority of them I've had, one time or another, as hangers-on in my dressing-roomonce I had sung at the 'Real.'

What the regular hangers-on of the sessions would have called a medium-sized house!

He had paid every sixpence he owed in the neighbourhood, and had been liberal in his donations to the servants and hangers-on of the place.

There were also some wild Indians, who were camped in the usual squalid fashion of Indians who are hangers-on round the white man but have not yet adopted his ways.

some she is pleased to bestow in the House to those that neither wants nor wears them, and some to Hangers-on, that frequents the House daily, who comes dressed out in them.

He should not have any hangers-on, nor should he consult any soothsayer, fortune teller, necromancer, or astrologer.

Meanwhile, inside the 'Spotted Deer' Bessie Costrell was treating her hangers-on.

For at that time hardly any court in Germany was without one or two of these hangers-on, and a bad, reckless, ill-contriving breed they were at Plassenburg, as doubtless elsewhere.

It is true that a few changes were made in the house, and the hangers-on and parasites were put to immediate flight.

"And how's Tim?" asked one of the black-coated hangers-on upon prospective glory.

77 examples of  hangers-on  in sentences