All 6 Uses of
vagabond
in
David Copperfield
- I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a little vagabond.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- It is enough that I place this boy under the eye of a friend of my own, in a respectable business; that it does not please him; that he runs away from it; makes himself a common vagabond about the country; and comes here, in rags, to appeal to you, Miss Trotwood.†
Chpt 13-15
- As he walked up and down that part of the courtyard which was at the side of the house, with the stray rooks and jackdaws looking after him with their heads cocked slyly, as if they knew how much more knowing they were in worldly affairs than he, if any sort of vagabond could only get near enough to his creaking shoes to attract his attention to one sentence of a tale of distress, that vagabond was made for the next two days.†
Chpt 16-18
- As he walked up and down that part of the courtyard which was at the side of the house, with the stray rooks and jackdaws looking after him with their heads cocked slyly, as if they knew how much more knowing they were in worldly affairs than he, if any sort of vagabond could only get near enough to his creaking shoes to attract his attention to one sentence of a tale of distress, that vagabond was made for the next two days.†
Chpt 16-18
- You had better leave me, if you please, to walk the earth as a vagabond.†
Chpt 49-51
- It was very unfortunate that she should marry such a vagabond.†
Chpt 63-64
Definition:
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(vagabond) a person who wanders from town to town with no fixed home or job