Such are the celebrated barefoot brigade, the eternal vagabonds, the "lumpen-proletariat" of Gorky's early works.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
"Let him go," Sipiagin said in an undertone, and added in German, "Lass' den lumpen laufen!"
"Virgin Soil"
Ivan S. Turgenev
The Bursche shouts- "Let each man arm himself like me, with sturdy stang, And chase unto destruction the beastly lumpen gang."
"The Student-Life of Germany"
William Howitt