All 15 Uses
vagabond
in
Bleak House
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- And that was another most consummate vagabond!†
Chpt 7-9 *
- A thoroughly vagabond dog, accustomed to low company and publichouses; a terrific dog to sheep, ready at a whistle to scamper over their backs and tear out mouthfuls of their wool; but an educated, improved, developed dog who has been taught his duties and knows how to discharge them.†
Chpt 16-18
- It MAY be a very good sort of penitence in a vagabond, who has wasted the best time of his life, to go back then to decent people that he never was a credit to and live upon them, but it's not my sort.†
Chpt 19-21
- A vagabond!†
Chpt 25-27
- I am such a vagabond still, even at my present time of life, that I couldn't hold to the gallery a month together if it was a regular pursuit or if I didn't camp there, gipsy fashion.†
Chpt 25-27
- Now, this appears to me a case of misdirected energy, which has a certain amount of reason in it and a certain amount of romance; and I don't know but what I should be more interested in our young friend, as an illustration of such a case, than merely as a poor vagabond—which any one can be.†
Chpt 31-33
- But it's impossible for an old vagabond comrade to like your wife and family better than I like 'em, Mat, and I trust you'll look upon me as forgivingly as you can.†
Chpt 34-36
- We are naturally in the vagabond way here, sir, both myself and Phil.†
Chpt 46-48
- "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.†
Chpt 46-48
- Howsoever," observed Mr. George with one of his sunburnt smiles, "a man who has been knocking about the world in a vagabond kind of a way as long as I have gets on well enough in a place like the present, so far as that goes."†
Chpt 52-54
- Though I am in these present quarters through no immediately preceding fault of mine, I can very well understand that if I hadn't gone into the vagabond way in my youth, this wouldn't have happened.†
Chpt 52-54
- If George the vagabond dragoon had any hand in it, he was only an accomplice, and was set on.†
Chpt 52-54
- How could I look my brother's children in the face and pretend to set them an example—I, the vagabond boy who had run away from home and been the grief and unhappiness of my mother's life?†
Chpt 55-57
- 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?†
Chpt 61-63
- 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?†
Chpt 61-63
Definitions:
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(1)
(vagabond) a person who wanders from town to town with no fixed home or job
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)