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Definition
someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
- 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.Chapter 6 — Maule's Well (4% in)
- 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.Chapter 10 — The Pyncheon Garden (79% in)
- 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.Chapter 16 — Clifford's Chamber (35% in)
There are no more uses of "vagrant" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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