How To Use Vagabond In A Sentence

There followed seventeen years of sectarian vagabondage: founded in 1830, the sect settled in Kirtland, Ohio, Jackson, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois, reaching Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah, in 1847.
Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished.
This country must not be made the dumping-ground for foreign vagabondism. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars.
He vagabonded his way to Paris and immediately settled into a bohemian life.

The extent of his acting ability is further shown in his portrayal of his own vagabond jazz trombonist father.
Three categories of poor were subsequently recognized: sturdy beggars or vagabonds, regarded as potential trouble-makers, the infirm, and the deserving unemployed.
Rome would be the gainer by it if her very constables were elected to serve a century; for in our experience we have never even been able to choose a dog-pelter without celebrating the event with a dozen knockdowns and a general cramming of the station-house with drunken vagabonds overnight. Sketches New And Old
I was a vagabond disk jockey on small stations with little income at age 30.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Amelia's vagabonding seems to have run across a few stops of the National Air Races which were underway at the same time.
Jean Francois was a vagabond by nature, a balladmonger by profession. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches
Nay what are all errors and perversities of his, even those stealings of ribbons aimless confused miseries and vagabondisms, if we will interpret them kindly, but the blinkard dazzlements and staggerings to and fro of a man sent on an errand he is too weak for, by a path he cannot yet find? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Individually, he would much prefer to have been one of his own "Seven Vagabonds" rather than one of the austerest preachers of the primitive church of New England; but the austerest preacher of the primitive church of New England would have been more tender and considerate to a real Mr. Dimmesdale and a real The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
After many years of vagabondage he was found mysteriously drowned in a Venetian canal in 1772.
In 1649 he was banished from Amsterdam for being a ‘libeller’ and ‘vagabond’.
In this category fall some of the adaptive activities of psychotics, autists, pariahs, outcasts, vagrants, vagabonds, tramps, chronic drunkards and drug addicts.
Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished.
I am a dogged traveler, the determined vagabond.
To mine -- to _mine_, you rascal, you vagabond!" stormed the King. The Art of the Story-Teller
But its probably true my wife would have traveled more if shed married someone else, and my unwillingness to become the vagabond is just one of the ways Ive been, as I said, an unexciting if loyal and unwavering companion. Excerpt: Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
He knew just how expensive Mary's clothes were, yet he could not blind himself to the fact that Polly's vagabond makeshifts, cheap and apparently haphazard, were always all right and far more successful. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
Niche travel, which is the category we vagabond surfers fall under, is available online too.
In 1649 he was banished from Amsterdam for being a ‘libeller’ and ‘vagabond’.
Historically, cacao itself has been a vagabond crop.
A group of vagabonds and derelicts inhabit a shelter in Moscow, presided over by a fanatical leader who preaches the love of everyone for everyone.
The very epitome of the 16th-century military freebooter and vagabond, the landsknecht was rightly feared wherever he went.
The life of the vagabond is an existence on the fringes of society. Harry Martinson: Catching the Dewdrop, Reflecting the Cosmos
Vidocq served a lucrative apprenticeship with various ruffians, vagabonds and swindlers.
One advantage the vagabond angler has is the knowledge gained by casting over different venues.
Having repudiated poetry, he gave himself up to vagabondage.
The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable females, the contempt of muscular males, the acceptance of fragments of bread, the simulated ignorance of casual acquaintances, the latration of illegitimate unlicensed vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable missiles, worth little or nothing, nothing or less than nothing. Ulysses
a planetary vagabond
The majority of what I have termed turpentine-farmers -- meaning the small proprietors of the long-leafed pine forest land, are people but a grade superior, in character or condition, to these vagabonds. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
They live a vagabond life/existence, travelling around in a caravan.
The most savvy travellers I know log onto this site as they vagabond.
Borrow has resuscitated a literary form which had been many years abandoned, and he has resuscitated it in no artificial manner -- as a rhythmical form is rehabilitated, or as a dilettante re-establishes for a moment the vogue of the roundel or the virelay -- but quite naturally as the inevitable setting for a picture which has to include the actors and the observations of the author's vagabond life. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825
Nabucco Pipeline up with the date bad timing! but better now than later due to popular demand the occasional awkward problam var some art i've made since being here (az) random pics 'cause my mom asked for them. back to vagabond warning: this is about being a woman in az Archive 2009-01-01
My entire life could be characterized as a vagabond existence. Homelessness, Creativity, and Recovery from Bipolar (2005)...with a Postscript...
As to his subsistence during these rambles, it would be very difficult to say how he managed that affair, at these, or indeed at any other times; and it may be that the prophetic limitation of a fast to forty days is now the urgent occasion of his return from vagabondism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
He was handsome, and he knew that he was handsome; but he affected to despise the beauty of his proud dark face, as he affected to despise all the brightest and most beautiful things upon earth: and yet there was a vagabondish kind of foppery in his costume that contrasted sharply with the gentlemanly dandyism of the shabby gamester sitting at the table. Birds of Prey
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Eleanor cared for a succession of hoboes, vagabonds, and bums who called at the back door of the large house the family owned on Hamond Street in Chicago.
A mere vagabond, idle person, hating labour, a drunkard, a sot, one of no spirit or forecast, delighting to live beggarly and carelessly, one content in no condition of life, either good or ill.
Deserters from foreign armies, prisoners of war, criminals, vagabonds, tramps, and people whom the crimps had entrapped by fraud and violence were the bulk of the regiments.
An atmosphere of exotism, of irregular existence, of protest against conventional custom, seemed to surround this vagabond family. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan
For he became a call-boy; and as early as '93 he became a "vagabond" -- the law's ungentle term for an unlisted actor; and in' 94 a "regular" and properly and officially listed member of that (in those days) lightly-valued and not much respected profession. Is Shakespeare Dead?
One of a cluster of huts farther up was given over to a squad of "soldiers," garrisoning the frontier, and an officer who would have ranked as a vagabond in another country sold me three tortillas and a shellful of coffee saved from his rations. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
/Vive Dieu/! have you forgotten the times when we used to vagabondize about the streets at night? Catherine De Medici
He could not survive on his own, a vagabond dog on the run.
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Dawn was at the curtains when my vagabond dreams -evaporated. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
The Vagabonds, in effect, buy off the by-blow of their hired man's romance, and the action of the novel consists of what the present generation makes of that earlier gift.
A vagabond is a kite lantern nightingale tramp scholar 44 45 Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8
Russia formed by the Volga basin in 1775 was described as "an asylum for malcontents and vagabonds of all kinds, ruined nobles, disfrocked monks, military deserters, fugitive serfs, highwaymen, and Volga pirates" -- disorderly elements which contributed greatly to the insurrection led by the Ural Cossacks in that year. [ Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
He abuseth thee finely, saith thou art a debauched vagabond, which is an insult to me thy serving companion, whom he threatened with the stocks. Cromwell
She got married one lunchtime and didn't tell her parents until she was four months pregnant, because my father was an actor, and actors then were kind of vagabonds, you know.
Some railroads agreed to carry vagabonds free: most rail managers resisted, using force to expel tramps from trains and sometimes sidetracking trains carrying large numbers of them to remote areas.
He is, says his biographer, ‘an old-fashioned theatrical vagabond, travelling light’.
Block out the sight of vagabond children hawking tat at traffic intersections.
Vagabond Tales is loosely based around the adventures of a musical vagabond who travels around the world and through time to bring different kinds of music back to the traveling minstrels of Barrage.
Some vagabond type was seen loitering in the vicinity, so we were scrambled. NIGHT SISTERS
Thanks to Barriss" and Jedi largesse, for two clanless vagabonds they had come a very long way in an exceedingly short time. The Cat is a Metaphor
My main point was that I am glad this vagabond is no longer allowed to molest, rape, and murder our kids fragile little eyes and ears. Dark Knight Pirater Sentenced To Two Years In Jail | /Film
Sooner will I vagabondize with my violin and fiddle for a bit of bread -- sooner will I break to pieces my instrument and carry dung on the sounding-board than taste a mouthful earned by my only child at the price of her soul and future happiness. Love and Intrigue
Beggars, vagabonds, prostitutes, and criminals occupied the bottom of this social order, and might have made up as much as 10 to 20 per cent of the urban population.
I don't attract a clientele of vagabonds and rogues and scurrilous types with evil motives.
A decree of Napoleon in 1808 sent vagabonds to prison and beggars to dépôts de mendicité where they were subjected to forced labour.
I can't quit my job and become a vagabond anti-imperial rebel at this stage of my life.
He writes about artisans, peasants, the rural poor, vagabonds, and beggars.
I was walking to my campus, it was in 1985, when I saw the body of a vagabond not far from the campus entrance gate.
Would you believe that, in the spring after the book was published, a disreputable-looking vagabond with a knapsack, who turned up one day, blarneyed Andrew about his book and stayed overnight, announced himself at breakfast as a leading New York publisher? Parnassus on Wheels
led a vagabond life
On the other hand, the hereditary dogmatism of their Southern kinsmen, is manifested in the summary disposition these make of all vagabond Yankees -- tinkers and peddlers -- found strolling about without any "local habitation," whenever they suspect them of being abolition emmissaries: for they incontinently ride the poor fellows on rails, and ornament their backs with a coat of tar and feathers, and sometimes administer to them hydropathically, giving them a succession of gentle douses in the nearest mill-pond, or oftener perhaps, in the pond attached to the nearest farmer's goosery. Social relations in our Southern States,
Having transformed vagabondage into an adventure of capitalism and empire, the men go on to subsume other ‘primitive’ practices within the collective capacity of modern white culture.
Three days later, in a related case (the records are sketchy, but the matching surnames in this small community suggest a link) ,143 Bridget St. Croix (presumably a relative of Ann) complained that on the previous evening she had encountered Thomas Tobin (possibly Ellen's brother and the victim of Ann's rock-throwing episodes), who had "accosted" her and said, "now you vagabond [w] hore I have you. Gutenber-e Help Page
When I look back at the way I dressed, I think I looked part vagabond and part ragamuffin.
He had found her, a run away vagabond, on the side of the road.
Her gypsy blood began to stir in her: the charm of her old vagabond habits asserted itself under the wincey frock and clean apron. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
As far as he could see, there was no possible point of contact between the old importer and the young urban vagabond. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
We're just vagabonds, traveling from one place to another.
The Inn was full of vagabond sailors and people who worked about Cabana Bay.
Yes, well, a Shaughraun is an Irish rural character, a vagabond, a footloose but loyal trickster.
He sat down, when a vagabond entered the mosk and seating himself in front of Attaf threw off from his shoulder a bag from which he took out bread and a chicken, and bread again and sweets and an orange, and olive and date-cake and cucumbers. Arabian nights. English
Some vagabond type was seen loitering in the vicinity, so we were scrambled. NIGHT SISTERS
Many beggars and vagabonds had also gathered in this place, the limited flatlands around the area was populated with white tents and pieces of clothing hanging upon long lines to dry.
These ‘vagabonds and outcasts’ came with an alien culture and a tendency to upheaval.
At home most of the time, I would bundle my baby in his stroller and go vagabonding as and when the weather would allow.
Dawn was at the curtains when my vagabond dreams -evaporated. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
Every European country legislated against vagrancy, often insisting that vagabonds should be returned to their parish of origin, and if necessary whipped or branded to deter them from trying again.
He then became a vagabond, initially sleeping on the streets or wherever he could find shelter.
The husband arranges her marriage with a person who is considered a vagabond.
His white-faced character, Bip, based on the 19th-century French Pierrot, a melancholy vagabond, is famous from his appearances on stage and television throughout the world. Five People Born on March 22 | myFiveBest
But there are others who have a kind of vagabondism in the blood; they are the persons intended by nature for emigrants and pioneers; and, if they take to the work of the ministry, they make the best missionaries. The Life of St. Paul
According children V.I.P treatment only helps to groom rogues and vagabonds in the long term.
Those who died on the Marina beach included fishermen, vagabonds, rag-pickers etc. who either had no home to go to or were out doing their bit to earn enough for one proper meal a day.
I uphold the law of this realm - and the law states quite clearly that vagrants are rogues and vagabonds.
And until that day, he was contented with being the vagabond that he was.
I suppose if I were a journalist with some newspaper's or magazine's code of ethics, instead of being a vagabond poet, I might have to be careful about accepting even pens and calendar.
They were ten days on the road, ten delightful days of irresponsible vagabondism. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle
Elizabethan England faced a mounting economic problem as the poor became poorer, and a growing army of vagabonds and beggars roamed the streets and countryside.
Doubtles the author of this libell was some vagabond huckster or pedler, and had gone particularly into many corners of Island to vtter his trumpery wares, which he also testifieth of himselfe in his worthy rimes, that he had trauailed thorow the greatest part of A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
We can't afford first time grants for houses, but we can afford €60m to buy an ego boosting plane for the vagabonds who squandered the boom years.
The carnie is no longer a punchline for a joke but a vanishing breed of vagabond that triggers wanderlust nostalgia, not thoughts of syphilis and criminal misdeeds.
harsh punishments for sturdy vagabonds and masterless men
This may have been vagabondism, but it was profitable vagabondism to me. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story
If you call a gypsy a vagabond, I think you do him wrong, Main Street and Other Poems
incurring," as he himself says, "in this vagabond life, the double stigma of suspension from orders and apostasy;" then studying medicine at A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Eleanor cared for a succession of hoboes, vagabonds, and bums who called at the back door of the large house the family owned on Hamond Street in Chicago.
Such vagabondism and beauty in the figure before me! Uncle Silas
Below is a close-up of the stem fitting for the bobstay on this Vagabond pictured above.
Judging by the clothing quality, the individual looked like a vagabond.
He would move to Tent City, where, for a brief period at the turn of the millennium, a few dozen thieves, vagabonds, cons and ex-cons constructed an anarchic community out of whatever materials they could find, scam or beg.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Eleanor cared for a succession of hoboes, vagabonds, and bums who called at the back door of the large house the family owned on Hamond Street in Chicago.
There was a rakish, vagabond smartness, and a kind of boastful rascality, about the whole man, that was worth a mine of gold. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
John Bull, that his coin may not corrode for want of circulation; if ever this fellow enters my house again, with his deer-stealing Stratford vagabond under his arm, tie them both up in a hopsack, and throw them into the Thames! The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810
As far as he could see, there was no possible point of contact between the old importer and the young urban vagabond. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
I think she was happy vagabonding with the couple.
Six kilometres short of Poltava we turn aside from the highway into a colony for homeless vagabond children run by Anton Makarenko.
These eighteenth-century statutes authorize the arrest of vagrants, vagabonds, and nightwalkers, among others.
We were vagabonds but now we have land, a home and we earn around at least 6,000 taka a month.
For he became a call-boy; and as early as '93 he became a "vagabond" -- the law's ungentle term for an unlisted actor; and in' 94 a "regular" and properly and officially listed member of that (in those days) lightly valued and not much respected profession. What Is Man? and Other Essays
In order to watch M. de Coralth, he had again arrayed himself in his cast-off clothes, and with his blouse and his worn-out shoes, his "knockers" and his glazed cap, he looked the vagabond to perfection. Baron Trigault's Vengeance
pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea
The jails are turned loose and the drunk-tank vagabonds gain the street, full of rotgut and the heat of morning.
He cut the buck as i wished, he found his Another Half eventually, ended the experience of painfully struggling and vagabondizing in the sea of missing.
The author never indicates how this drifter from a vagabond existence came to live in a modest upper middleclass neighborhood with no steady income (dollhouses?). Reader reviews of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
So we pass the days in a sort of luxurious vagabondism. Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches
He has set forth the pride of the vagabond and the garish fascinations of the gitana. Promenades of an Impressionist
As far as he could see, there was no possible point of contact between the old importer and the young urban vagabond. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
A group of vagabonds and derelicts inhabit a shelter in Moscow, presided over by a fanatical leader who preaches the love of everyone for everyone.
roving vagabonds
Born in Texas, and named by an Indian mystic, Devendra is a vagabond artist in the purest sense of the word.
They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean.
During these periods of vagabondism he would live on a mere nothing, sleeping in barns, or in the open air, and would faithfully bring back his gains to Uncle Moses. The Drama
James J. Ward is now wholly James J. Ward, and he shares no part of his being with any vagabond anachronism from the younger world. When the World Was Young
Page 285 vagabondism and parasitism in the world's economy, no amount of philanthropy and benevolent sentiment can win for us esteem: and if we contribute a positive value in those things the world prizes, no amount of negro-phobia can ultimately prevent its recognition. A Voice From the South
Six kilometres short of Poltava we turn aside from the highway into a colony for homeless vagabond children run by Anton Makarenko.
My dear man of moods! my good vagabond! my windlestraw of circumstance! constant only to one ideal -- the unattainable perfection in a kind of roguish art. Doom Castle
I worked at a racetrack, picked fruit, traveled about as a vagabond.
A vagabond black crow which was found wandering in Kimberley Road a few days ago, is now lodging at the Queen's Park Zoo until someone claims him - for he appears to be a pet.
I could not understand why so often, in the literature of vagabondage, the vagrant beggar was described as a hypocrite.
Cohen includes a category of songs about hoboes, tramps, vagabonds, etc. who populated the boxcars and rail-yards in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

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