How To Use Vagrancy In A Sentence
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Male arrestees charged with minor infractions such as vagrancy, loitering, or traffic violations were excluded from the project.
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He then continues: "This experience reiterated the lesson that the vast majority of these wanderers are of the class with whom a life of vagrancy is a chosen means of living without work.
THE TRAMP
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He would spend four times that long in “luxurious vagrancy” in the islands, which would ever afterward linger in his memory as “the peacefullest, restfullest, sunniest, balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge for a worn and weary spirit the surface of the earth can offer.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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The next three were called vagrancy: (1) Loafing on the docks; (2) "sleeping out" nights; (3) getting "wandering spells.
The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
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Stefan Margita, a Slovakian tenor in his Met debut, was both wily and pathetic as Filka, going under the name Luka, who sings a monologue about being sent to prison for vagrancy, where one day he impulsively stabbed a bullying officer.
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In Victoria, begging is a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment under the Vagrancy Act.
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She pleaded guilty to committing vagrancy by being a common prostitute or nightwalker.
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Once, without comment, her copperplate handwriting recorded that bail had been provided on a vagrancy charge near Houston.
FOLLY
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Like a swallow in vagrancy, covering all the streets lanes in the Capital.
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Famously, he spent a spell as a Highgate Cemetery gravedigger, and was later also deported from Spain for vagrancy while busking in Barcelona.
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Unlike the above policies of segregation that brazenly named the objects of their scorn - − "masterless men," "cripples," "negroes," and "Bolshevik bums" − - today's vagrancy laws are dressed up in post-civil rights legalese.
Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 3
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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.
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On Thursday, six of the homeless people who were arrested for vagrancy were released.
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Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile.
Les Miserables
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First I had to sit through half a dozen hearings of vagrancy.
FOOLS GOLD
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Once, without comment, her copperplate handwriting recorded that bail had been provided on a vagrancy charge near Houston.
FOLLY
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The Merchant Shipping Act of 1823 replaced bonding with a law that confined Lascars to East India Company boarding houses and threatened those who did not board the next ship home with imprisonment for vagrancy.
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It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile.
Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
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And meanwhile the quite obvious cause of vagrancy is staring one in the face.
Down and Out in Paris and London
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The question of the future of the banana industry also earned a place on the list as well as policies to improve life in poor communities in an effort to reduce crime, drugs, prostitution and vagrancy.
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The report concluded that prison terms for relatively minor offences including vagrancy and larceny destabilised family and spousal relationships, and led to a loss of accommodation and employment.
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It is apparent that the authorities lack the determination and will power to solve the persistent problem of vagrancy.
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Police would begin by warning sidewalk solicitors that they are in violation of vagrancy laws.
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Police would begin by warning sidewalk solicitors that they are in violation of vagrancy laws.
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Dear Mollie -- I was glad to know that bound with the fetters of Science, and depressed by thought, you were Struggling yet to ascend the rugged Steep -- where "Star eyed Science" and fame unfold their banners to every anxious aspirant, and under whose folds of magnitude and magnificence all alike are permitted to recumb, and recur those who have in vagrancy strayed "tracing Shadows" -- beware of
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,June 2, 1854
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But how far could they go before they would be arrested for what the white people called vagrancy?
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule