The Pillars of the Earth vocabulary

The mother out of pure indulgence took me up, and put me towards the child, who presently seized me by the middle and got my head in its mouth, where I roared so loud that the urchin was frighted, and let me drop, and I should infallibly have broke my neck if the mother had not held her apron under me.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)

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There he was, sure enough, a small urchin with a little bundle upon his shoulder, toiling slowly up the hill.

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)

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Did I see next morning two urchins rummaging in a garbage can and trying on Jutting Chin?

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita