Sample Sentences for
vagabond
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  • She is a vagabond who dislikes attachment of any kind.
  • 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)
    vagabond = wanderers who lack homes
  • The owner of the Vagabond in Miami, where Ruby was heading, said there was no replacing Ruby.†  (source)
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  • 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)
  • When Mae was close enough to make out their faces, she could see they were clean, tidy—she'd feared their clothing would confirm what their vessel implied, that they were not just waterborne vagabonds, but dangerous, too.†  (source)
  • We are dressed in shreds of national costumes, out of season, the wilted plumage of intercontinental vagabondage.†  (source)
  • This news amazed the lama, who did not then know how religiously Kim kept to the contract made with Mahbub Ali, and perforce ratified by Colonel Creighton... '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)
  • Just you and me, two vagabond knights on the kingsroad, our swords at our sides and the gods know what in front of us, and maybe a farmer's daughter or a tavern wench to warm our beds tonight.†  (source)
  • He said he would come with me, as there were many rough men and vagabonds on the roads that I needed protection from.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • Runaway, vagabond, make my own life.†  (source)
  • But at noon tomorrow I wish to see them here in this courtyard looking like men-at-arms and not like vagabonds.†  (source)
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