"Tatterdemalion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reminded me so sweetly of the swindles of other lands and days, that I couldn't help it," he answered; and straightway in the eyes of both that poor, whiskeyfied, Irish tatterdemalion stood transfigured to the glorious likeness of an ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... was under the nose of viceroyalty, while the suburbs revealed poor tatterdemalion tenements, dropping their slates like tears, and uttering their hollow sighs through empty casements, merely because they were "one mile two furlongs from the Castle." But the new stone tablet which told you ...
— Handy Andy, Volume One - A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes • Samuel Lover |
