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  • Not until ten hours later, when a vagrant knocked on the small shack Mr. Harvey had built out of discarded doors—did he begin to pack himself and Leah Fox's body up.   (source)
    vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
  • Our landlord, Mr. Kaminski, called boys like these "street Arabs," lawless vagrants who travel in gangs, pickpockets and worse.†   (source)
  • He poked about with a bit of stick, that itself was wave-worn and whitened and a vagrant, and tried to control the motions of the scavengers.†   (source)
  • Looks like you've had a vagrant spending a night or two in there.†   (source)
  • "Bella and Yetta aren't vagrants," Jane said stoutly.†   (source)
  • For a moment, I took him for a vagrant, but then I saw he was just some local fellow enjoying the fresh air and summer sunshine, and saw no reason not to comply.†   (source)
  • "Then you'll spend the night in jail for vagrancy and threatening behavior.†   (source)
  • I'm figuring this vagrant violinist is a column.†   (source)
  • Any vagrant thought could take me.†   (source)
  • There were periods when he would turn up in the village, looking like a vagrant.†   (source)
  • I was really enjoying myself till a man came along and arrested me for vagrancy.†   (source)
  • Vagrants?†   (source)
  • The sheriff returns to the lot with railroad officials and makes noises about vagrancy laws.†   (source)
  • His father, Jose Edilio, the loudmouthed ball-breaking vagrant who had never married Papi's mother but nevertheless had given her nine children, had attempted a similar stunt when he worked in a hotel kitchen in Rao Piedras.†   (source)
  • He complained endlessly about a vacant newsstand near his building, which was used by vagrants as a trash bin and stank of urine.†   (source)
  • Then I'll have to arrest you on vagrancy charges, and have your dad bring you home.†   (source)
  • This latter group included not just vagrants and criminals, but anyone who happened to be poor or a recent arrival to the city.†   (source)
  • There were a number of people already in the streets: merchants going to open their shops, night watchmen on their way to bed, drunk noblemen just emerging from their revels, vagrants sleeping in doorways, as well as soldiers running pell-mell toward the city walls.†   (source)
  • They settled for a charge of vagrancy and gave him the option of being expelled from the state or serving jail time.†   (source)
  • We can't simply be catering to every vagrant who hasn't the sense to be home on such a night."†   (source)
  • That's where they put common criminals, murderers, along with vagrant boys, pickpockets.†   (source)
  • Lucien looked and smelled like a skid row bum they'd picked up for vagrancy.†   (source)
  • …on the lake his ol' car broke down and he had to catch the bus and ride it home, and the police arrested him in Anniston when he got off the bus and sent him to Birmingham because he walked off behind these men and they thought he was with them, that he was a, what do you call it, a vagrant, and we couldn't find him and he had no way of tellin' us, and it was days and days and days and we didn't know what had happened to our daddy, until finally we called all the jails and found him.†   (source)
  • Now at Sessions, then at Pleas, now in Admiralty, now at Superior Court, then in the gallery of the House…… Here and there and everywhere, a rambling, roving, vagrant, vagabond life.†   (source)
  • Villages in these parts did not love vagrants at any time, and whipped them on their way.†   (source)
  • At the time, Joe had thought only that a vagrant draft had abruptly drawn the flames higher in the lamps, though the air in the kitchen had been still.†   (source)
  • There was a vagrant wisp of hair on her cheek; I brushed it away gently and kissed her without waking her.†   (source)
  • They took him to jail, booked him for vagrancy and intoxication, and locked him in a cell.†   (source)
  • He felt, with a touch of mirthless amusement, that the gun had been needed at the mills, not in the peaceful safety of loneliness and night; what could some starving vagrant take from him, compared to what had been taken by men who claimed to be his protectors?†   (source)
  • Because my mind was raised to horizons Even the boldest man lowers his gaze In thinking of, must my body here Be taken for a vagrant's?†   (source)
  • What other middle-class American teenager lived the way he did—flitting around the country like a vagrant, completely out of his parents' control, getting in touch just sporadically and neglecting whenever possible to give them any means of getting in touch with him?†   (source)
  • Twice, or maybe three times a year, the police and the welfare people made a sweep along the river, arresting the men and women for vagrancy and being drunk in public, and taking the children away to the Home.†   (source)
  • Yet it was not simply this agonizing mortal blow which the senator had suffered that caused me my odd and vagrant pang.†   (source)
  • MEEKER starts out, then pauses) Long as I've been bailiff here, we've never had nothin' but drunks, vagrants, couple of chicken thieves.†   (source)
  • If she did it again she found herself in jail, charged with vagrancy and public prostitution.†   (source)
  • And because there's no sense for one's eyes to be blinking When all they behold has been scorched by the sun, And the fine ashes of Autumn (its white gossamer) Float in at the windows with each vagrant breeze.†   (source)
  • Walt and Billie never knew they were hosting a vagrant.   (source)
  • If I pay you a half a dollar I ain't a vagrant, huh?   (source)
  • You know a vagrant is anybody a cop don't like.   (source)
  • You'll see a lot of them little lines, 'Vagrant foun' dead.'   (source)
  • So he takes this little guy in, an' they give him sixty days in jail for vagrancy.   (source)
    vagrancy = for hanging around without a regular home or means of support
  • Vagrant foun' dead.   (source)
    vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
  • Got a law about vagrants.   (source)
    vagrants = people who are poor and have no regular home or job
  • I told Gerald it was too much, bringing a vagrant in this house when Lord knows where she's been."†   (source)
  • Anyway, one winter night, I guess a couple of vagrants lit a fire inside to stay warm.†   (source)
  • And sometimes he's dressed like a vagrant.†   (source)
  • Maybe even the jail, in case the town decided they were vagrants.†   (source)
  • There was also one or two vagrant, torpid wasps.†   (source)
  • Near Tallahassee he was picked up by sheriff's men, judged vagrant, and put on a road gang.†   (source)
  • Then the hobo camps are raided and vagrants brought in and hotel registers scrutinized.†   (source)
  • A typical male vagrant.†   (source)
  • It's had enough that you're associating with that Italian girl, but now, entertaining another vagrant in your own private quarters—it simply isn't done!"†   (source)
  • Though New Bern didn't have a big problem with vagrants, even the ones who were around knew enough to avoid the place for the danger it presented.†   (source)
  • He, too, was bedewed with spray, and the few vagrant strands that settled him lay glistening for a moment before they dissolved.†   (source)
  • But he was not isolated, there were people to talk to, a plentiful turnover of drunkards, forgers, wife-beaters, and Mexican vagrants; and Dick, with his light-hearted "con-man" patter, his sex anecdotes and gamy jokes, was popular with the inmates (though there was one who had no use for him whatever-an old man who hissed at him: "Killer!†   (source)
  • Who's more likely to be cast as a pedophile— the heroic cop and consummate family man …. or the sketchy vagrant who was doing work in the house?†   (source)
  • Your morality demands that you divorce your love from values and hand it down to any vagrant, not as response to his worth, but as response to his need, not as reward, but as alms, not as a payment for virtues, but as a blank check on vices.†   (source)
  • There were bright lights under the marquee of the entrance, but it was dark beyond, on the pavement, so I could see without being seen, there were a few loafers and vagrants hanging around, there was a drizzle of rain and we clung to the walls of the building.†   (source)
  • It doesn't matter to me if he's a vagrant or Queen Elizabeth or Jesus Christ—it just matters that we win this case for him, so that he can die on his own terms.†   (source)
  • …the world as he made it look, as if it matched him, as if he were its symbol-I saw a world of achievement, of unenslaved energy, of unobstructed drive through purposeful years to the enjoyment of one's reward-I saw, as I stood in the rain in a crowd of vagrants, what my years would have brought me, if that world had existed, and I felt a desperate longing-he was the image of everything I should have been …. and he had everything that should have been mine…… But it was only a moment.†   (source)
  • He had scarcely spoken when, coming from none knew where, A throng of slaves sprang up, a host of vagrant men With swords and torches, and at their head stood Judas With the perfidious kiss writhing on his lips.†   (source)
  • Sophie felt a shiver pass through her as, simultaneously, her neck was brushed by a vagrant draft and Floss lightly touched the edge of her shoulder with his fingertips.†   (source)
  • Some of them served as strongholds for armed bands of highwaymen or as hideouts for escaping criminals or political fugitives-the involuntary vagrants of those days-but most of them had become mortuaries and mass graves for the victims of the cold and of the typhus raging all along the line and mowing down whole villages.†   (source)
  • A vagrant pang of memory stabbed me but I thrust the ache aside; certainly I could not be a homosexual, could I, feeling for this creature such abiding, heartbreaking desire?†   (source)
  • Sophie paused and gazed into the murky evening light of the Maple Court, invaded by a fluttering crowd of vagrant moths, the place deserted now except for ourselves and the bartender, a weary Irishman making a muffled clacking sound at the cash register.†   (source)
  • The effect of silence was sinister, baffling—surely, I thought while we edged our way toward the rear, such a throng should give up a vagrant mumble, a sigh, some evidence of life—until the moment we found our tattered and rumpsprung seats.†   (source)
  • With her luck, she'd probably get arrested for vagrancy.†   (source)
  • I was a tramp and I got taken up for vagrancy and put on a road gang--leg irons at night.†   (source)
  • Then, during a period when the city's ruling elite was in one of its periodic moods to view certain forms of sociopathic behavior as a legitimate protest, vagrancy increased, gang members began to loiter in groups, and open drug dealing commenced.†   (source)
  • Felony vagrancy.†   (source)
  • Adam was picked up for vagrancy.†   (source)
  • Tom said, "They'll be somebody else foun' dead right 'longside of this here vagrant."†   (source)
  • But my body passes vagrant as a bird's shadow.†   (source)
  • In this great camp of vagrant floaters he lost himself: he came home into this world from loneliness.†   (source)
  • In fact, when he regarded his past, he saw it strewn with images of tasks too vagrant or too taxing ever to have been accomplished; but now they were all possible, even in a mood of idleness.†   (source)
  • She had a cloud of curly dark hair which was so sternly repressed beneath its net that no vagrant tendrils escaped, and this dark mass, with its long widow's peak, accentuated the heart shape of her face.†   (source)
  • It was cool and dim in the high-ceilinged hall and the vagrant draft that went from back to front of the house was refreshing after the heat of the sun.†   (source)
  • Again, from some slight twitch I guess your feeling; I have escaped you; I have gone buzzing like a swarm of bees, endlessly vagrant, with none of your power of fixing remorselessly upon a single object.†   (source)
  • What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things?†   (source)
  • He was a sporting vagrant armed with a vast stock of stories, limericks and riddles.†   (source)
  • O good sir, peradventure you mean the ragged regal vagrant that tarried here the night.†   (source)
  • What! he a vagrant, a wanderer, who refuses to budge?†   (source)
  • I became vagrant and wandering like yourself.†   (source)
  • The four others were dark-eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin and very fair.†   (source)
  • 'Here's the vagrant—the felon—the rebel—the monster of unthankfulness.'†   (source)
  • It is because he will not be a vagrant, then, that you seek to count him as a vagrant.†   (source)
  • From the vagrant to the tramp, the race is maintained in its purity.†   (source)
  • "I'll give you a piece of bread," she said, after a pause; "but we can't take in a vagrant to lodge.†   (source)
  • "Then I'll die in the streets!" says the vagrant.†   (source)
  • Bearing his flowers like a weapon, Richard Dalloway approached her; intent he passed her; still there was time for a spark between them—she laughed at the sight of him, he smiled good-humouredly, considering the problem of the female vagrant; not that they would ever speak.†   (source)
  • She did not admire him with any personal warmth, for there was nothing of the vagrant in her blood, but she guessed he might attract women of his own race and rank, and she regretted that neither she nor Ronny had physical charm.†   (source)
  • And Leonora also imagined that Edward and Nancy picked her up and threw her down as suited their purely vagrant moods.†   (source)
  • He said sharply— "Ye mannerless vagrants, is this your recognition of the royal boon I have promised?"†   (source)
  • The floor was covered with a pretty matting, and the curtains that softened the high window and fluttered in the vagrant breezes were of pale-green art muslin.†   (source)
  • It was even filthier and more crowded than the county jail; all the smaller fry out of the latter had been sifted into it—the petty thieves and swindlers, the brawlers and vagrants.†   (source)
  • Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.†   (source)
  • Venters and Bess had vagrant minds.†   (source)
  • He nodded and gurgled in brief smothering sleep; he sprawled on the seat and talked with friendly fellow vagrants; he drank bitter coffee and ate enormously of buckwheat cakes at a station restaurant; and so, changing at anonymous towns, he came at last to the squatty shelters, the two wheat-elevators, the cattle-pen, the oil-tank, and the red box of a station with its slushy platform, which composed the outskirts of Wheatsylvania.†   (source)
  • But what could be done for female vagrants like that poor creature, stretched on her elbow (as if she had flung herself on the earth, rid of all ties, to observe curiously, to speculate boldly, to consider the whys and the wherefores, impudent, loose-lipped, humorous), he did not know.†   (source)
  • He felt that she had at last arrived at an understanding with herself: had made a pact with her rebellious impulses, and achieved a uniform system of self-government, under which all vagrant tendencies were either held captive or forced into the service of the state.†   (source)
  • You hardly realize, sir, that I am not a man, or that I am unaccustomed to the vagrant, careless life which you and your men seem to lead.†   (source)
  • The adventure of meeting Gallaher after eight years, of finding himself with Gallaher in Corless's surrounded by lights and noise, of listening to Gallaher's stories and of sharing for a brief space Gallaher's vagrant and triumphant life, upset the equipoise of his sensitive nature.†   (source)
  • All the way down the knoll, through the shrubbery, round and round a cottonwood, Fay's vagrant fancy left records of her sweet musings and innocent play.†   (source)
  • But her husband was rough on me—many times he was rough on me—and mainly he was the justice of the peace that jugged me for a vagrant.†   (source)
  • A vagrant current or a slight rise in the river had carried off their raft, but this only gratified them, since its going was something like burning the bridge between them and civilization.†   (source)
  • And then, where a vagrant shaft of sunlight struck the ocean and turned its surface to wrathful silver, I caught a small black speck thrust skyward for an instant and swallowed up.†   (source)
  • But hunger is pride's master; so, as the evening drew near, he made an attempt at another farmhouse; but here he fared worse than before; for he was called hard names and was promised arrest as a vagrant except he moved on promptly.†   (source)
  • From the point the shore curved away, more and more to the south and west, until at last it disclosed a cove within the cove, a little land-locked harbour, the water level as a pond, broken only by tiny ripples where vagrant breaths and wisps of the storm hurtled down from over the frowning wall of rock that backed the beach a hundred feet inshore.†   (source)
  • "Five years ago you drove me away from your father's kitchen one night, when I come to ask for something to eat, and you said I warn't there for any good; and when I swore I'd get even with you if it took a hundred years, your father had me jailed for a vagrant.†   (source)
  • Josiah Bounderby of Coketown learnt his letters from the outsides of the shops, Mrs. Gradgrind, and was first able to tell the time upon a dial-plate, from studying the steeple clock of St. Giles's Church, London, under the direction of a drunken cripple, who was a convicted thief, and an incorrigible vagrant.†   (source)
  • It is a black, dilapidated street, avoided by all decent people, where the crazy houses were seized upon, when their decay was far advanced, by some bold vagrants who after establishing their own possession took to letting them out in lodgings.†   (source)
  • …my possible wants during my month of trial; that Steerforth, to my great disappointment and hers too, did not make his appearance before she went away; that I saw her safely seated in the Dover coach, exulting in the coming discomfiture of the vagrant donkeys, with Janet at her side; and that when the coach was gone, I turned my face to the Adelphi, pondering on the old days when I used to roam about its subterranean arches, and on the happy changes which had brought me to the surface.†   (source)
  • When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow's-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing.†   (source)
  • For us that movement of the peoples from west to east, without leaders, with a crowd of vagrants, and with Peter the Hermit, remains incomprehensible.†   (source)
  • It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or vagrant Indian, whom the white man's firewater had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest.†   (source)
  • Somehow, now that I had once crossed the threshold of this house, and once was brought face to face with its owners, I felt no longer outcast, vagrant, and disowned by the wide world.†   (source)
  • Passepartout had been a sort of vagrant in his early years, and now yearned for repose; but so far he had failed to find it, though he had already served in ten English houses.†   (source)
  • Some vagrant—quite in rags.†   (source)
  • The black, rich soil had fed itself with the decay of a long period of time; such as fallen leaves, the petals of flowers, and the stalks and seed—vessels of vagrant and lawless plants, more useful after their death than ever while flaunting in the sun.†   (source)
  • Poor Rosamond's vagrant fancy had come back terribly scourged—meek enough to nestle under the old despised shelter.†   (source)
  • Yon Jasper Eau-douce is a vagrant sort of a lad, and they have reports of him in the garrison that it pains my very heart to hear.†   (source)
  • The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants.†   (source)
  • The negroes constitute a scanty remnant, a poor tribe of vagrants, which is lost in the midst of an immense people in full possession of the land; and the presence of the blacks is only marked by the injustice and the hardships of which they are the unhappy victims.†   (source)
  • May I take this opportunity of remarking, as an instance in point, that it is scarcely delicate to look at vagrants with the attention which I have seen bestowed upon them by a very dear young friend of mine?†   (source)
  • …the latter of whom, without vailing his bonnet, or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic, took from his neck a gold chain, which he flung on the board, saying—"Let Prior Aymer hold my pledge and that of this nameless vagrant, in token that when the Knight of Ivanhoe comes within the four seas of Britain, he underlies the challenge of Brian de Bois-Guilbert, which, if he answer not, I will proclaim him as a coward on the walls of every Temple Court in Europe."†   (source)
  • But the Seven Sleepers had a dog; and dogs of the mysterious breeds that vagrants own, that are as much like cats as dogs and as much like foxes as cats also lay about here.†   (source)
  • He was naturally humane, but possessed of no small share of moral courage; or, in other words, he was chary of the lives of his patients, and never tried uncertain experiments on such members of society as were considered useful; but, once or twice, when a luckless vagrant had come under his care, he was a little addicted to trying the effects of every phial in his saddle-bags on the strangers constitution.†   (source)
  • This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for not playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging in the streets, and doing nothing for his livelihood.†   (source)
  • But her vagrant mind must be reduced to order: there was an art in self-discipline; and she walked round and round the brown library considering by what sort of manoeuvre she could arrest her wandering thoughts.†   (source)
  • I gi'e ye the words: "His seed shall orphans be, his wife A widow plunged in grief; His vagrant children beg their bread Where none can give relief.†   (source)
  • She talked kindly to the vagrant artist, and took sage counsel—lady as she was—with the wood-sawyer, the messenger of everybody's petty errands, the patched philosopher.†   (source)
  • One told how he had taken a life, another had taken two, a third had set a house on fire, while another had simply been a vagrant and had done nothing.†   (source)
  • Some of the many vagrant cats who were always prowling about there by night, and who had taken fright at him, appeared to have stopped when he had stopped, and were looking at him with eyes by no means unlike his own from tops of walls and porches, and other safe points of pause.†   (source)
  • So I smoothed him down a bit about not wanting to disturb the family after they was gone to bed and about its being a thing to be regretted that charitable young ladies should harbour vagrants; and then, when I pretty well understood his ways, I said I should consider a fypunnote well bestowed if I could relieve the premises of Toughey without causing any noise or trouble.†   (source)
  • One feels in it the wild and ancient sadness of those vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of their own, some of which have come down to us.†   (source)
  • It informed me that the writer had sent to the police, and had Bartleby removed to the Tombs as a vagrant.†   (source)
  • I am not absolutely such a fool and sensualist as to regret the absence of a carpet, a sofa, and silver plate; besides, five weeks ago I had nothing — I was an outcast, a beggar, a vagrant; now I have acquaintance, a home, a business.†   (source)
  • Young and unknown, mere vagrant adventurer as he was, she had been conscious of a force in Holgrave which might well adapt him to be the champion of a crisis.†   (source)
  • That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to revolt.†   (source)
  • —a vagrant, is he?†   (source)
  • We give you a flop last night, but next time you'll get a vagrancy hung on you.†   (source)
  • Jepson was picked up for vagrancy and sent back to the States, thus Iggy's wife wanted him back.†   (source)
  • The crime of not earning a living, in their case, is called vagrancy.†   (source)
  • I had come out of Kingston Jail last on a vagrancy committal.†   (source)
  • As for Mme. de Guermantes herself, since she remained there motionless, sitting like a mother who affects not to notice the rude or awkward conduct of her children who, in the course of their play, are speaking to people whom she does not know, it was impossible for me to determine whether she approved or condemned the vagrancy of her eyes in the careless detachment of her heart.†   (source)
  • But Baby Warren wanted to talk to Dick, wanted to talk to him with the impetus that sent her out vagrantly toward all new men, as though she were on an inelastic tether and considered that she might as well get to the end of it as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • With so much time to talk, and no definite object to be led up to, she could taste the rare joys of mental vagrancy.†   (source)
  • Our instructed vagrancy, which was hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans,—which is nourished on books of travel and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi,—can hardly get a dim notion of what an old-fashioned man like Tulliver felt for this spot, where all his memories centred, and where life seemed like a familiar smooth-handled tool that the fingers clutch with loving ease.†   (source)
  • The task of recalling him from the vagrancy into which he always sank when he had spoken, was like recalling some very weak person from a swoon, or endeavouring, in the hope of some disclosure, to stay the spirit of a fast-dying man.†   (source)
  • To natural viciousness and vagrancy are being daily added motives of revolt and revenge which stir up all the latent savagery of both races and make peaceful attention to economic development often impossible.†   (source)
  • Vagrancy, that Gallic picareria, accepted the sewer as the adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, fierce and sly, through the Maubuee outlet, as into a bed-chamber.†   (source)
  • It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile.†   (source)
  • What's in the vagrant's mind?
    Fear of someone?†   (source)
  • Thieves, vagrants, blasphemers, adulterers …. and suspected witches.†   (source)
  • What have I said?
    I don't grudge you anything,
    not if the next man up and gives you plenty.
    This doorsill is big enough for the both of us—
    you've got no call to grudge me what's not yours.
    You're another vagrant, just like me, I'd say,
    and it lies with the gods to make us rich or poor.†   (source)
  • Vagrants and daylabourers are you called: the world trembles at our name.†   (source)
  • Some linger on the edge of vulgarity: /pep/ for /pepper/, /flu/ for /influenza/, /plute/ for /plutocrat/, /pen/ for /penitentiary/, /con/ for /confidence/ (as in /con-man/, /con-game/ and /to con/), /convict/ and /consumption/, /defi/ for /defiance/, /beaut/ for /beauty/, /rep/ for /reputation/, /stenog/ for /stenographer/, /ambish/ for /ambition/, /vag/ for /vagrant/, /champ/ for /champion/, /pard/ for /partner/, /coke/ for /cocaine/, /simp/ for /simpleton/, /diff/ for /difference/.†   (source)
  • 4d. in the pound, sandwichman, distributor of throwaways, nocturnal vagrant, insinuating sycophant, maimed sailor, blind stripling, superannuated bailiffs man, marfeast, lickplate, spoilsport, pickthank, eccentric public laughingstock seated on bench of public park under discarded perforated umbrella.†   (source)
  • To be sure it was a legitimate object and beyond yea or nay did a world of good, shelters such as the present one they were in run on teetotal lines for vagrants at night, concerts, dramatic evenings and useful lectures (admittance free) by qualified men for the lower orders.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS A vagrant shepherd journeying for hire?†   (source)
  • In about five days after, these three vagrants, almost starved with hunger, drew near our grove, and perceiving me, the governor, & two others walking by the side of the creek, they very submissively desired to be received into the family again.†   (source)
  • The reason of punishing this so severely is, because they think that if they were not strictly restrained from all vagrant appetites, very few would engage in a state in which they venture the quiet of their whole lives, by being confined to one person, and are obliged to endure all the inconveniences with which it is accompanied.†   (source)
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