All 9 Uses of
vagabond
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- The fashionable vagabond for the moment quite quailed under the steady look of the older sinner, and walked towards the door, muttering as he went.†
Chpt 19
- Do innocent men inveigle nameless vagabonds, and prowl with them about the country as idle robbers do?†
Chpt 20 *
- 'Have I brought ruin upon the best and purest creature that ever blessed a demnition vagabond!†
Chpt 21
- 'I know it has been a severe one,' said Ralph, wilfully mistaking the meaning of the interruption, 'and that has made me the more anxious to tell you that I disown this vagabond—that I acknowledge him as no kin of mine—and that I leave him to take his deserts from you, and every man besides.†
Chpt 38
- 'I never come across such a vagabond, and my mate says the same.†
Chpt 41
- And remember this, 'scape-gallows,' said Ralph, menacing him with his hand, 'that if we meet again, and you so much as notice me by one begging gesture, you shall see the inside of a jail once more, and tighten this hold upon me in intervals of the hard labour that vagabonds are put to.†
Chpt 44
- 'He is an idle ruffian,' said Ralph; 'a vagabond from beyond the sea where he travelled for his crimes; a felon let loose to run his neck into the halter; a swindler, who has the audacity to try his schemes on me who know him well.†
Chpt 51
- …to disturb a solemn ceremony, and knowing that the consequence of his presenting himself in another man's house at such a time, and persisting in remaining there, must be his being kicked into the streets and dragged through them like the vagabond he is—this fellow, mark you, brings with him his sister as a protection, thinking we would not expose a silly girl to the degradation and indignity which is no novelty to him; and, even after I have warned her of what must ensue, he still…†
Chpt 54
- But I tell him that I'll be a sharp thorn in his side for many a long day to come; and I tell you two, again, that you don't know him yet; and that you'll rue the day you took compassion on the vagabond.'†
Chpt 60
Definition:
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(vagabond) a person who wanders from town to town with no fixed home or job