A number of forms moved vaguely about-that pitiful, shiftless class which no small town can eliminate, who had merely come to "see the train come in."
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
During his life Mr. Wedge had been a strolling agent, never stopping in a town more than a week; and thus she lived and travelled about, always hoping for a quiet home, until her good-natured but shiftless husband took to his bed one day, and never got up again, leaving as her inheritance his blessing and a wild son of thirteen, who knew all about the ways of the world, but nothing of industry.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
A lazy man, or a shiftless man, or a bad man of any kind, cannot get in; and when a man belongs to a lodge, it can be depended upon that he is as near right as they make them.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe