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  • Returning to the Varden was Eragon's primary concern, and it rankled him to plod along like a common vagabond.†   (source)
  • No one understood why, for no one knew his history, other than that he was a vagabond Kenyon had adopted years ago.†   (source)
  • *Bigwig's word was hlessil, which I have rendered in various places in the story as wanderers, scratchers, vagabonds.†   (source)
  • Several months later saw the return of Francisco the Man, as ancient vagabond who was almost two hundred years old and who frequently passed through Macondo distributing songs that he composed himself.†   (source)
  • Runaway, vagabond, make my own life.†   (source)
  • Only he does not altogether like mysterious vagabonds of my sort.†   (source)
  • Or do you want to stay with this broken-down old vagabond and become one of his lost boys, spending your days entombed in stacks of dusty books?†   (source)
  • A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth …. and whoever slayeth thee, vengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold.†   (source)
  • Why him-thirdculture vagabond from the Philippines, Java Hut extraordinaire, aspiring Magic Circle actor, unpublished novelist-he had no idea.†   (source)
  • Kenneth Gustafsson, known as the Vagabond.†   (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)
  • The owner of the Vagabond in Miami, where Ruby was heading, said there was no replacing Ruby.†   (source)
  • It is a vagabond's life.†   (source)
  • The fourth Article of the Confederacy declares "that the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall, in every other, enjoy all the privileges of trade and commerce," etc. Why were the terms free inhabitants used in one part, free citizens in another, and people in another?†   (source)
  • But at noon tomorrow I wish to see them here in this courtyard looking like men-at-arms and not like vagabonds.†   (source)
  • It's as clear as daylight," Svirid, his friend and fellow vagabond, backed him up.†   (source)
  • No kin of mine, he's nothing but a vagabond," said Ruth, and led Harris off to the kitchen by the hand.†   (source)
  • Your patient is proving to be quite the resourceful vagabond, Father.†   (source)
  • Jerker is fully occupied digging up bits of Kenneth 'the Vagabond' Gustafsson.†   (source)
  • The Vagabond was chopped into five or six pieces.†   (source)
  • Behind a mystique of adventure, toughness, footloose vagabondage-all much needed antidotes to our culture's built-in comfort and convenience may lie a kind of adolescent refusal to take seriously aging, the frailty of others, interpersonal responsibility, weakness of all kinds, the slow and unspectacular course of life itself… [TIop climbers… can be deeply moved, in fact maudlin; but only for worthy martyred excomrades.†   (source)
  • It can be interpreted to mean that he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to abandon the life of a solitary vagabond, stop running so hard from intimacy, and become a member of the human community.†   (source)
  • And then those endless muddy roads to the nearest town, if it could be called a town — that pack of well-born, finely dressed princes in their castles, those stinking peasants, so poor there was nothing to be gotten out of them, and the vagabonds and beggars with vermin dropping from their hair — oh, how sick I was of them all.†   (source)
  • Reading this correspondence (collected in W. L. Rusho's meticulously researched biography, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty), one is struck by Ruess's craving for connection with the natural world and by his almost incendiary passion for the country through which he walked.†   (source)
  • Astoundingly, the eighty-one-year-old man took the brash twenty-four-year-old vagabonds advice to heart.†   (source)
  • Come November, as the weather turns cold across the rest of the country, some five thousand snowbirds and drifters and sundry vagabonds congregate in this otherworldly setting to live on the cheap under the sun.†   (source)
  • After working there eleven days with six other vagabonds, it became clear to McCandless that Ernie had no intention of ever paying him, so he stole a red ten-speed bicycle from the clutter in the yard, pedaled into Chico, and ditched the bike in a mall parking lot.†   (source)
  • McCandless had told Westerberg that his destination was Saco Hot Springs, 240 miles to the east on U.S. Highway 2, a place he'd heard about from some "rubber tramps" (i. e., vagabonds who owned a vehicle; as distinguished from "leather tramps," who lacked personal transportation and were thus forced to hitchhike or walk).†   (source)
  • To look at him riding with such confidence and being so worshiped, one would think he had been a king from the ancient stories instead of a forest vagabond who'd abandoned the Guard and now spoke of treason.†   (source)
  • He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great brown eyes, Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer, leader of a gang of vagabonds.†   (source)
  • Those vagabond monsters?†   (source)
  • Aureliano would spend his mornings deciphering parchments and at siesta time he would go to the bedroom where Nigromanta was waiting for him, to teach him first how to do it like earthworms, then like snails, and finally like crabs, until she had to leave him and lie in wait for vagabond loves.†   (source)
  • That girl was Ruby Granik, on her way to dance at the Vagabond Club in Miami when she boarded the ill-fated Miami Airlines C-46 on a bitterly cold Sunday afternoon.†   (source)
  • Another child, Thomas Boylston, was born in September of 1772, and again Adams was off on the "vagabond life" of the circuit, carrying a copy of Don Quixote in his saddlebag and writing Abigail sometimes as many as three letters a day.†   (source)
  • Her family was going to celebrate Christmas tonight, ten days early, because she was leaving tomorrow morning, on her way to Miami to dance at the Vagabond Club on Biscayne Boulevard.†   (source)
  • —who?
    A figure wan
    With a message to one in there of something due?
    Shall I know him anon?"
    "Yea, he; and he brought such; and you'll know him anon."
    Thomas Hardy, Who's in the Next Room?
    The holes certainly were rough—"Just right for a lot of vagabonds* like us," said Bigwig—but the exhausted and those who wander in strange country are not particular about their quarters.†   (source)
  • He would spend his afternoons in the courtyard, learning to play the accordion by ear over the protests of Ursula, who at that time had forbidden music in the house because of the mourning and who, in addition, despised the accordion as an instrument worthy only of the vagabond heirs of Francisco the Man.†   (source)
  • When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.†   (source)
  • And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass that everyone that findeth me shall slay me.†   (source)
  • Everywhere in the world there are rogues and vagabonds, even it may be on this very coach of ours.†   (source)
  • Steve returned from New Orleans after a year of vagabondage.†   (source)
  • Do you think old J. T. Mullins would let his daughter marry Bruce Glendenning, international vagabond, jack of all trades, and good at none of them?†   (source)
  • And what did vagabonds do?†   (source)
  • Vagabonds!†   (source)
  • Pressing forward before the Master's table they cried: "These are prisoners of our king that have escaped, wandering vagabond dwarves that could not give any good account of themselves, sneaking through the woods and molesting our people!"†   (source)
  • "Perhaps," I thought, while her words still hung in the air between us like a wisp of tobacco smoke—a thought to fade and vanish like smoke without a trace—"perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gateposts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other,…†   (source)
  • So that suddenly he was filled with the excitement of seeing her again, of being called "Uncle Pio," and of reviving for a moment the trust and humor of their long vagabondage.†   (source)
  • And yet again, and the fear smote him as grievously as ever, his son had left the girl and the unborn child, left the work that the young white man had got for him, and was vagabond again.†   (source)
  • What had they done, or left undone, that their son had become a thief, moving like a vagabond from place to place, living with a girl who was herself no more than a child, father of a child who would have had no name?†   (source)
  • Grimy from vagabondage they had crawled off a freight-train at Knoxville, Tennessee, spent their little money on food, and in a brothel, and returned, two days later, coal-black but boastful of their exploit.†   (source)
  • As for the others—Ben and Luke only—they were left floating in limbo; for Steve, since his eighteenth year, had spent most of his life away from home, existing for months by semi-vagabondage, scrappy employment, and small forgeries upon his father, in New Orleans, Jacksonville, Memphis, and reappearing to his depressed family after long intervals by telegraphing that he was desperately sick or, through the intermediacy of a crony who borrowed the title of "doctor" for the occasion,…†   (source)
  • These were strange words to the vagabond boy's ears, and the pleasantest he had ever heard.†   (source)
  • The troop of vagabonds turned out at early dawn, and set forward on their march.†   (source)
  • "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," said Mr. Holder.†   (source)
  • "No better than a vagabond now" …. the end of the cigarette smouldered between his fingers ….†   (source)
  • {7}Canting terms for various kinds of thieves, beggars and vagabonds, and their female companions.†   (source)
  • How is it that drunken vagabond doesn't come in?†   (source)
  • 'Come, none of your tricks here, you young vagabond; they won't do.†   (source)
  • The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness.†   (source)
  • You know my vagabond and restless habits.†   (source)
  • Vagabond, Aesopus certainly was; Homerus was a beggar; Mercurius was a thief—†   (source)
  • A drunken worthless vagabond, like most of his colour who harbour with the savages, I warrant you!†   (source)
  • I—Cain—go alone as I deserve—an outcast and a vagabond.†   (source)
  • 'Now, to think of these vagabonds,' said he, 'attracting the young rabble from a model school.'†   (source)
  • And that was another most consummate vagabond!†   (source)
  • No, no! this is no great matter, and the unthoughtful vagabond drew it down on himself.†   (source)
  • But as he exposed himself like a vagabond or a thief, he should have been—†   (source)
  • "And a vagabond," resumed Clopin, "and a vagabond; is that nothing?†   (source)
  • If George the vagabond dragoon had any hand in it, he was only an accomplice, and was set on.†   (source)
  • He is a runaway rogue and a vagabond, that's what he is, in English.'†   (source)
  • 'Have I brought ruin upon the best and purest creature that ever blessed a demnition vagabond!†   (source)
  • She was, in fact, no better than a vagabond upon this earth.†   (source)
  • All crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child.†   (source)
  • You had better leave me, if you please, to walk the earth as a vagabond.†   (source)
  • And the woods are full of the vagabonds, waiting to know what is to be the upshot of the miracle.†   (source)
  • It was very unfortunate that she should marry such a vagabond.†   (source)
  • We are naturally in the vagabond way here, sir, both myself and Phil.†   (source)
  • 'When I was a vagabond myself, nobody looked with any interest at me; I know that.'†   (source)
  • 'I never come across such a vagabond, and my mate says the same.†   (source)
  • "Let us make another trial," resumed the vagabond.†   (source)
  • The archdeacon said coldly to him, "Become a vagabond."†   (source)
  • A vagabond presented his banner to Clopin, who planted it solemnly between two paving-stones.†   (source)
  • retorted the vagabond wench, turning her back on him.†   (source)
  • You must wed either a female vagabond or the noose.†   (source)
  • "So you will be a vagabond, you knave?" he said to our poet.†   (source)
  • He gave an order in a low voice to two archers, who led away the poor vagabond.†   (source)
  • Your majesty sees that the vagabond did not recognize me.†   (source)
  • No. In that case I shall become a professional vagabond.†   (source)
  • A soldier pointed out to the king a billhook which he had seized on the person of the vagabond.†   (source)
  • One of these towers had been converted into a pleasure resort by the vagabonds.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the vagabonds continued to arm themselves and whisper at the other end of the dram-shop.†   (source)
  • The throng of vagabonds, uttering loud acclamations, crowded to its foot to ascend.†   (source)
  • The law which you apply to vagabonds, vagabonds apply to you.†   (source)
  • A cry of horror rose among the vagabonds.†   (source)
  • The female vagabonds did not seem to be much affected by the proposition.†   (source)
  • He was very busy marshaling the little black vagabonds of tin cups and pouring into them the streaming iron colored mixture from a small and sooty tin pail.†   (source)
  • But I hardly thought of my other self, now gone from the ship, to be hidden forever from all friendly faces, to be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, with no brand of the curse on his sane forehead to stay a slaying hand…. too proud to explain.†   (source)
  • Space, like time, gives birth to forgetfulness, but does so by removing an individual from all relationships and placing him in a free and pristine state—indeed, in but a moment it can turn a pedant and philistine into something like a vagabond.†   (source)
  • …around him the thrilling possibility of her suddenly appearing: in the courtyard of the Chateau, now beautiful in his eyes since it was on her account that he had gone to visit it; in all the streets of the town, which struck him as romantic; down every ride of the forest, roseate with the deep and tender glow of sunset;—innumerable and alternative hiding-places, to which would fly simultaneously for refuge, in the uncertain ubiquity of his hopes, his happy, vagabond and divided heart.†   (source)
  • They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!†   (source)
  • Whenever she was restless she dodged her thoughts by the familiar vagabond fallacy of running away from them, of moving on to a new place, and thus she persuaded herself that she was tranquil.†   (source)
  • Lily had no mind for the vagabond life of the poor relation, and to adapt herself to Mrs. Peniston she had, to some degree, to assume that lady's passive attitude.†   (source)
  • Our vagabond libertines are no more interesting from that point of view than the sailor who has a wife in every port, and Byron's hero is, after all, only a vagabond libertine.†   (source)
  • The Countess Olenska had said "after five"; and at half after the hour Newland Archer rang the bell of the peeling stucco house with a giant wisteria throttling its feeble cast-iron balcony, which she had hired, far down West Twenty-third Street, from the vagabond Medora.†   (source)
  • With delicate sarcasm he narrated the last weeks, the patience with which Cronshaw bore the well-meaning clumsiness of the young student who had appointed himself his nurse, and the pitifulness of that divine vagabond in those hopelessly middle-class surroundings.†   (source)
  • The caretaker was so struck with their innocent appearance, and with the elegance of Tess's gown hanging across a chair, her silk stockings beside it, the pretty parasol, and the other habits in which she had arrived because she had none else, that her first indignation at the effrontery of tramps and vagabonds gave way to a momentary sentimentality over this genteel elopement, as it seemed.†   (source)
  • —at this very moment the six vagabonds were instructed to rise conspicuously and leave the theatre with looks of deep melancholy and an injured dignity.†   (source)
  • He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end.†   (source)
  • Yet she could not help noticing that the parvenu, being a cautious man like all parvenus, showed a certain aristocratic restraint toward her; his Spanish terrorism ultimately had little in common with her own door-slamming, vagabonding "humaneness."†   (source)
  • All made by labor, and on its way to be squandered by wealthy vagabonds in the dens of vice that disfigure the sunny shores of the Mediterranean.†   (source)
  • Amory had only the vaguest idea as to what Bernard Shaw was—but Monsignor made quite as much out of "The Beloved Vagabond" and "Sir Nigel," taking good care that Amory never once felt out of his depth.†   (source)
  • The Lord Protector was as amazed as the rest, but quickly recovered himself, and exclaimed in a voice of authority— "Mind not his Majesty, his malady is upon him again—seize the vagabond!"†   (source)
  • It was not so bad there now, he remarked negligently, and, he went on drawling, "There's some sort of white vagabond has got in there, I hear….†   (source)
  • Therefore, at each performance of "Ha-Ha Hortense!" half-a-dozen seats were kept from sale and occupied by six of the worst-looking vagabonds that could be hired from the streets, further touched up by the Triangle make-up man.†   (source)
  • If it hadn't been for Dain Waris, a pock-marked tattooed vagabond would have pinned him with his spear to a baulk of timber like one of Stein's beetles.†   (source)
  • He was in a fine fury when he found himself described as a 'sturdy vagabond' and sentenced to sit two hours in the stocks for bearing that character and for assaulting the master of Hendon Hall.†   (source)
  • It appears that a sort of loafing, fuddled vagabond—a white man living amongst the natives with a Siamese woman—had considered it a great privilege to give a shelter to the last days of the famous Gentleman Brown.†   (source)
  • That unspeakable vagabond, Mariani, who had known the man and had ministered to his vices in one or two other places, kissed the ground, in a manner of speaking, before him, and shut him up with a supply of bottles in an upstairs room of his infamous hovel.†   (source)
  • "They were all afraid," he said to me—"each man afraid for himself; while I could see as plain as possible that they must do something at once, if they did not want to go under one after another, what between the Rajah and that vagabond Sherif."†   (source)
  • I've been hungry prowling inside this stinking enclosure with some of these vagabonds shoving their mugs right under my nose.†   (source)
  • I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.†   (source)
  • "Are you bringing numbers five and eight, you vagabond," said Mr. Trabb to the boy after that, "or shall I kick you out of the shop and bring them myself?"†   (source)
  • His old vagabond nature returned to him; the fantastic ideas of his youth once more took possession of him.†   (source)
  • …irrigation; Wakem had tried to make Dix stand out, and go to law about the dam; it was unquestionably Wakem who had caused Mr. Tulliver to lose the suit about the right of road and the bridge that made a thoroughfare of his land for every vagabond who preferred an opportunity of damaging private property to walking like an honest man along the highroad; all lawyers were more or less rascals, but Wakem's rascality was of that peculiarly aggravated kind which placed itself in opposition…†   (source)
  • A man might be respected with only one of these advantages, but without either he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few!†   (source)
  • Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received good turns from one of these Canallers; I thank him heartily; would fain be not ungrateful; but it is often one of the prime redeeming qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one.†   (source)
  • It had lately occurred to her that her mind was a good deal of a vagabond, and she had spent much ingenuity in training it to a military step and teaching it to advance, to halt, to retreat, to perform even more complicated manoeuvres, at the word of command.†   (source)
  • One day we made an excursion to the farm at Prospect Hill, and were grievously provoked to find that the vagabond apes had been there, and wrought terrible mischief, as before at Woodlands.†   (source)
  • It may be well to go round and feel the vagabonds that are left, or we may have another of them loping through the woods, and screeching like a jay that has been winged.†   (source)
  • If a man changes his name and so forth, and takes steps to deceive the world and his own wife, he's a cheat, and that in the eye of the law is ayless a rogue, and that is ayless a lammocken vagabond; and that's a punishable situation."†   (source)
  • You vagabond!†   (source)
  • Or is there such virtue in the rude rhymes of a wandering bard, that domestic love, kindly affection, peace and happiness, are so wildly bartered, to become the hero of those ballads which vagabond minstrels sing to drunken churls over their evening ale?†   (source)
  • The Mr Tite Barnacle who at the period now in question usually coached or crammed the statesman at the head of the Circumlocution Office, when that noble or right honourable individual sat a little uneasily in his saddle by reason of some vagabond making a tilt at him in a newspaper, was more flush of blood than money.†   (source)
  • 'Begone, you vagabond!†   (source)
  • …anything is professed and practised but the art of life;—to survey the world through a telescope or a microscope, and never with his natural eye; to study chemistry, and not learn how his bread is made, or mechanics, and not learn how it is earned; to discover new satellites to Neptune, and not detect the motes in his eyes, or to what vagabond he is a satellite himself; or to be devoured by the monsters that swarm all around him, while contemplating the monsters in a drop of vinegar.†   (source)
  • Curiously incongruous elements were left arrayed against each other,—the North, the government, the carpet-bagger, and the slave, here; and there, all the South that was white, whether gentleman or vagabond, honest man or rascal, lawless murderer or martyr to duty.†   (source)
  • I'm not good enough for the Moravians, and am too good for most of the other vagabonds that preach about in the woods.†   (source)
  • When I look about me, at these hills, where I used to could count sometimes twenty smokes, curling over the tree-tops, from the Delaware camps, it raises mournful thoughts, to think that not a red-skin is left of them all; unless it be a drunken vagabond from the Oneidas, or them Yankee Indians, who, they say, be moving up from the seashore; and who belong to none of Gods creatures, to my seeming, being, as it were, neither fish nor flesh—neither white man nor savage.†   (source)
  • It would be an ugly business, indeed, if Judge Pyncheon (who would not have cared a fig for Paganini's fiddle in his most harmonious mood) should make his appearance at the door, with a bloody shirt-bosom, and a grim frown on his swarthily white visage, and motion the foreign vagabond away!†   (source)
  • 'There is no holding the young pony from the game,' said the horse-dealer when the Colonel pointed out that vagabonding over India in holiday time was absurd.†   (source)
  • Do innocent men inveigle nameless vagabonds, and prowl with them about the country as idle robbers do?†   (source)
  • But, by your leave, I did not think that a continuation of the history of the enterprising vagabond Jim Smiley would be likely to afford me much information concerning the Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, and so I started away.†   (source)
  • Are we still living in the monstrous times of the Middle Ages, when vagabonds were permitted to display in our public places leprosy and scrofulas they had brought back from the Crusades?†   (source)
  • Often, before his captivity, Dantes' mind had revolted at the idea of assemblages of prisoners, made up of thieves, vagabonds, and murderers.†   (source)
  • No doubt there is a staggering absurdity in appointing an ordinary clerk to see that the leaders of European literature do not corrupt the morals of the nation, and to restrain Sir Henry Irving, as a rogue and a vagabond, from presuming to impersonate Samson or David on the stage, though any other sort of artist may daub these scriptural figures on a signboard or carve them on a tombstone without hindrance.†   (source)
  • "Pitch into 'em, Hodson," roared the baronet; "flog their little souls out, and bring 'em up to the house, the vagabonds; I'll commit 'em as sure as my name's Pitt."†   (source)
  • It appeared that a Bohemian, a bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment in the town.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • We told him why we wanted him to come into the kitchen, and he slowly laid down his hammer, wiped his brow with his arm, took another wipe at it with his apron, and came slouching out, with a curious loose vagabond bend in the knees that strongly distinguished him.†   (source)
  • "How?" exclaimed the Templar; "deliver up our prisoners, and stand an object alike of ridicule and execration, as the doughty warriors who dared by a night-attack to possess themselves of the persons of a party of defenceless travellers, yet could not make good a strong castle against a vagabond troop of outlaws, led by swineherds, jesters, and the very refuse of mankind?†   (source)
  • "Them careless imps, the Mohawks, with their Tuscarora and Onondaga brethren, have been here slaking their thirst," he muttered, "and the vagabonds have thrown away the gourd!†   (source)
  • Nothing more is wanting than to arrest the count as a vagabond, on the pretext of his being too rich.†   (source)
  • And if in just fury you accuse their vagabonds of violating women, they also in fury quite as just may reply: The rape which your gentlemen have done against helpless black women in defiance of your own laws is written on the foreheads of two millions of mulattoes, and written in ineffaceable blood.†   (source)
  • …more between; and each blow every day grew fainter than the last; the wife sat frozen at the window, with tearless eyes, glitteringly gazing into the weeping faces of her children; the bellows fell; the forge choked up with cinders; the house was sold; the mother dived down into the long church-yard grass; her children twice followed her thither; and the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen curls!†   (source)
  • Or— "In spite of the laws against vagabondage, the approaches to our great towns continue to be infected by bands of beggars.†   (source)
  • After being injured by him as a rival, and snubbed by him as a journeyman, the crowning degradation had been reserved for this day—that he should be shaken at the collar by him as a vagabond in the face of the whole town.†   (source)
  • I hear the voice of that vagabond Arrowhead among them, and he is urging them to set about their devilry this very night.†   (source)
  • I know the vagabond would gladly cross his breed with a little honest blood, but if any son of his ever gets to be the husband of—†   (source)
  • After slipping among oozy piles and planks, stumbling up wet steps and encountering many salt difficulties, the passengers entered on their comfortless peregrination along the pier; where all the French vagabonds and English outlaws in the town (half the population) attended to prevent their recovery from bewilderment.†   (source)
  • If he were not discharged, it is very unlikely that he could receive any further punishment than being committed to prison as a rogue and vagabond; and of course ever afterwards his mouth would be so obstinately closed that he might as well, for our purposes, be deaf, dumb, blind, and an idiot.'†   (source)
  • Hindley calls him a vagabond, and won't let him sit with us, nor eat with us any more; and, he says, he and I must not play together, and threatens to turn him out of the house if we break his orders.†   (source)
  • Them was the conditions on which I got my furlough, and a bargain is a bargain, though it is made with a vagabond.†   (source)
  • They came at night, when the flickering camp-fires shone like vast unsteady stars along the black horizon: old men and thin, with gray and tufted hair; women with frightened eyes, dragging whimpering hungry children; men and girls, stalwart and gaunt,—a horde of starving vagabonds, homeless, helpless, and pitiable, in their dark distress.†   (source)
  • This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard.†   (source)
  • —a vagabond, a Corsican.†   (source)
  • I do not think the affair so settled as that, or we should hear the vagabond Mingos yelling out their triumph around the blockhouse.†   (source)
  • "I swallow all my food, captain, without chewing," returned the vagabond, with the low exultation of an accomplished villain, as he eagerly seized the silver.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER LXIV A Vagabond Chapter We must pass over a part of Mrs. Rebecca Crawley's biography with that lightness and delicacy which the world demands—the moral world, that has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.†   (source)
  • 'Are we to pass a vote of thanks to all these vagabonds, male and female, and beg them to accept a hundred pounds, or so, apiece, as a trifling mark of our esteem, and some slight acknowledgment of their kindness to Oliver?'†   (source)
  • "A Huron!" repeated the sturdy scout, once more shaking his head in open distrust; "they are a thievish race, nor do I care by whom they are adopted; you can never make anything of them but skulls and vagabonds.†   (source)
  • Ten young descendants of Marius and the Gracchi, barefooted and out at elbows, with one hand resting on the hip and the other gracefully curved above the head, stared at the traveller, the post-chaise, and the horses; to these were added about fifty little vagabonds from the Papal States, who earned a pittance by diving into the Tiber at high water from the bridge of St. Angelo.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Countrymen, butchers, drovers, hawkers, boys, thieves, idlers, and vagabonds of every low grade, were mingled together in a mass; the whistling of drovers, the barking dogs, the bellowing and plunging of the oxen, the bleating of sheep, the grunting and squeaking of pigs, the cries of hawkers, the shouts, oaths, and quarrelling on all sides; the ringing of bells and roar of voices, that issued from every public-house; the crowding, pushing, driving, beating, whooping and yelling; the…†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me.†   (source)
  • People had spoken of a prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant encounters.†   (source)
  • When we were ready, the Sarpent gave his signal, and then all went just as it should, down to the moment when yonder vagabond leaped upon my back.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't object to say, perhaps, that although an undoubted vagabond, I am a vagabond of the harum-scarum order, and not of the mean sort?"†   (source)
  • "There is one riptyle the less," Pathfinder muttered to himself; "I've seen that vagabond afore, and know him to be a marciless devil.†   (source)
  • "Then, sir," returns the trooper in a decisive manner, "it appears to me—being naturally in the vagabond way myself—that the sooner he comes out of the street, the better.†   (source)
  • It's a wonderment to me how you got us off, Deerslayer; and I forgive you the interference that prevented my doin' justice on that vagabond, for this small service.†   (source)
  • It's true she's not a full-blooded Mingo, but she consorts with the vagabonds, and must have larned some of their tricks.†   (source)
  • 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.'†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • …child once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the innocent, which save an old vagabond who has only a few years to live at most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children.†   (source)
  • Vagabond, errand-boy, vagabond, labourer, porter, clerk, chief manager, small partner, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown.†   (source)
  • '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.†   (source)
  • All this seemed a gift, and might be calculated on even in the midst of a Mingo camp; for I've been outlying in my time, in the very villages of the vagabonds."†   (source)
  • The wretched ignorance with which Jupe clung to this consolation, rejecting the superior comfort of knowing, on a sound arithmetical basis, that her father was an unnatural vagabond, filled Mr. Gradgrind with pity.†   (source)
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