All 8 Uses
vagabond
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Lord Jim
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- 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!†
Chpt 5 *
- 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.†
Chpt 5
- "No better than a vagabond now" ...the end of the cigarette smouldered between his fingers ..."without a single—single," he pronounced slowly; "and yet ..."†
Chpt 16
- I've been hungry prowling inside this stinking enclosure with some of these vagabonds shoving their mugs right under my nose.†
Chpt 25
- "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."†
Chpt 26
- 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.†
Chpt 27
- 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....Eh?†
Chpt 28
- 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.†
Chpt 37
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)