How To Use Vagrant In A Sentence

The number of vagrants also seems to be increasing.
Residents said since the murder was discovered, police paramilitaries had been conducting an aggressive campaign to check identities in a search for vagrants, who are the prime suspects.
But it is wilful — the very wind in the comings and goings of its influence, an uncapturable fugitive, visiting our hearts at vagrant, sweet moments; since we often stand even before the greatest works of Art without being able quite to lose ourselves! The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
The captain paced restlessly up and down, pausing occasionally to survey the vagrant smoke wisps and to trace them back to the portions of the deck from which they sprang. THE SEED OF McCOY
Mr O'Donoghue insisted that just a handful of vagrants were causing trouble for people and that he was not insisting that all were creating a menace in the boom city.

The Nanchong affair was obviously about much more than a crowd in a stadium baying for the blood of four vagrants.
Jaime was not a melomaniac, but his vagrant existence forced him with the crowd, and his accomplishment as an amateur pianist had led him to make his musical pilgrimage for two consecutive years. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan
Interesting marsh birds found in the reclaimed areas include egrets Egretta alba, E. garzetta and E. intermedia, purple heron Ardea purpurea (a rare vagrant from Africa) and green-backed heron Butorides striatus, while birds of prey include osprey Pandion haliaetus, Pallas's sea-eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus (R), white-bellied sea-eagle H. leucogaster, grey-headed fishing eagle Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, Oriential hobby F. severus, northern eagle owl Bubo bubo and brown fish owl Ketupa zeylonensis. Sundarbans National Park, India
Both societies were mistrustful of uncontained wanderers, though the colonies had few institutions in which to incarcerate the vagrant poor.
Each sibling feels the need to break away - Emma to follow her new dream of being an archaeologist, Blue to track down his elusive and by now vagrant father, whom he finds squatting in an abandoned warehouse.
There has been an increase in vagrants and Bergies and huge antisocial behaviour.
The native avifauna includes 57 residents, of which 28 (49%) are endemic and 31 are regular migrants; a number of vagrants are also present. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
The King portrayed a female vagrant, complete with a garbage bag dress, who goes after a man in hope of satisfying her carnal desires.
I told you to act like a drunk vagrant imbecile.
Vagrant Story is still the child of its parents, though, which is where the rift in its appeal opens up.
The brilliant camera work sympathetically follows him from street corners where he shares a dazed smoke with a couple of wrinkled vagrants to a silent pond where his exhausted mind conjures up startling hallucinations.
So why would our own starveling country want two more of these vagrant landing-strips, whatever the asking price may turn out to be?
In this category fall some of the adaptive activities of psychotics, autists, pariahs, outcasts, vagrants, vagabonds, tramps, chronic drunkards and drug addicts.
We hear of these wild, vagrant saints, rather along the lines of John the Baptist.
They'd be the perfect doss-house for a vagrant, wouldn't they? In the Presence of the Enemy
There is no doubt that Port-of-Spain could do with cleaning up; but dealing with the perennial, thorny issue of vagrants is a far larger matter than merely one aspect of beautifying the capital.
I tell you this vagrant fisherman, this wandering preacher, this piece of driftage from Galilee, commanded me. Chapter 17
We did hear reports it had been occupied by vagrants, but no definite report of anyone being inside.
Half were cottagers, landless farm laborers, or vagrants, and one-seventh worked exclusively in textiles, mining, and other village industries.
The Nanchong affair was obviously about much more than a crowd in a stadium baying for the blood of four vagrants.
(Part of the affront of Phoenix's prank is that behind his vagrant's disguise, he dares to live a private life.) Joaquin Phoenix offers us a reality check on celebrity
Instead, it reaches the reader ‘through a vagrant sympathy and a kind of immediate contact’.
But in Folkestone, the sun glinted off the sea and vagrant scavenging gulls wheeled around.
Would the advocates back off if police brought vagrant lawbreakers to shelters instead of arresting them?
A son's love is a vagrant thing and may be given and refused without reason.
This bird may have been a visitor from Victoria, or a vagrant from the population in eastern Asia.
Lavant plays a vagrant waif, Binoche a runaway painter.
There is growing concern among community leaders that drunks and vagrants are causing problems in public places, and volunteers are now carrying out sweeps of the shopping area to weed out troublemakers.
Mayors have no moral grounds to complain about good Samaritans who feed vagrants when all else that's available to the homeless are sterile, unattractive environments.
The moon glows like a phosphrous on the vagrant waters.
In addition to a person to lock the gates, a night watchman has been employed to keep the vagrants from climbing over the fence at night and sleeping on the stalls where food is sold during the day.
They informed me many of these vagrants are dopers, alkies and mentally unstable, they deal with them on a regular basis. Justices lament closing main entrance to high court building
Police Chief Berryer's men routinely rounded up vagrants and sent them off to colonize Canada.
It is a dangerous place, a place where vagrants live, where "lost boys" roam the catacombs, and where the dark figure of Drood and his two steersmen usher Dickens on a gondola to the deepest recesses of Underworld. Archive 2010-01-01
Though he be a vagrant and wanderer, he knows that which must be done to heal this place.
Following up the boys, who escaped from them in disgustif indeed they were not barred out; the street swarmed with children for whom there was not roomI saw them herded at the prison to which Protestant truants were sent, with burglars, vagrants, thieves, and bad boys of every kind. I try to go to the War for the Third and Last Time
This old tower is a complete breeding-place for vagrant birds; the swallow and martlet abound in every chink and cranny, and circle about it the whole day long; while at night, when all other birds have gone to rest, the moping owl comes out of its lurking-place, and utters its boding cry from the battlements. The Alhambra
Yellow-billed Cuckoos are officially considered extirpated in Washington, and the occasional sightings are vagrants.
Two only of the vagrant tribe the boy dislikes, the colporteur and the travelling Spiritualist -- two cold, shabby, sniffling beings, each wrapped in a shawl and each driving an old horse afflicted with poll-evil. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
Police say he got the boys from the South Pattaya pier area where there are a lot of vagrant children.
He knew that the ruling class are in some ways as much outsiders as vagrants and dossers, which is why the landowner has a sneaking sympathy for the poacher.
I drifted off like a vagrant, wading through the afternoon stillness, the dust powdering my shoes. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
We know you ran away with those vagrant teenagers.
It is a dangerous place, a place where vagrants live, where “lost boys” roam the catacombs, and where the dark figure of Drood and his two steersmen usher Dickens on a gondola to the deepest recesses of Underworld. Archive 2009-02-01
A recent law that bars police from rousting homeless people from the city has expanded the vagrant population in a city unused to street people.
One vagrant breath of wind can ruin an entire weekend.
She said the bag belonged to a vagrant who frequented the area and spent the night at that same spot.
A crowd that clutched parcels of packaged joy had gathered around a joyless, shoeless vagrant who was dressed in newspaper-stuffed tatters.
One grubby-looking vagrant recently followed me up the road, bellowing at me about how much he needed money for his ‘hard drugs’.
But I think he displays a real understanding and sympathy for his coster girls, criminals and dosshouse vagrants.
The Law of Social Risk of 1970 was a reenactment of the old law against "vagrants and crooks" that had been in force since 1933.
To prolong these vagrant adversaria would not be difficult. De Libris: Prose and Verse
Along with San Francisco paying their vagrants and Chicago now planning on building homes along with paying them, the vagrant lifestyle is becoming more and more attractive.
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
I wandered down dirty streets, past vacant looking vagrants, and across a railway line. All was dark and dusty.
Is not every incentive and every concession to vagrant appetite a force that enwraps a man in gratification of self, and severs him from duty to others, and so a force of dissolution and dispersion? Voltaire
In Elizabethan England the poor laws were enacted to control vagrant men who were seen as subversive.
Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddelli) and crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) are very rare vagrants from the south. MacQuarie Island, Australia
They took her to a hospice as a pauper and a vagrant and she died there. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
The rogue was most probably one of the vagrants, and like a flash it entered his mind that the ropedancer, Kuni, who in her prosperous days, instead of eating meat and vegetables, preferred to satisfy her appetite with fruits and sweet dainties, might be the culprit. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
The video, which was taped over the last two years, features scenes of two young men with shaved heads dousing unsuspecting vagrants and drug addicts with a liquid.
John Pounds’ work with vagrant children led to the Ragged School movement and began the concept of a universal education for all.
Inconsequentially, his vagrant mind recalled that, below Miami, the Southern Cross is smudgily visible on the horizon, somewhere around two in the morning. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story
Perhaps they were vagrants to the Falklands, or (as with the Andean tapaculo and others discussed above) maybe they were natives that have since become extinct. Archive 2006-05-01
Council chiefs in Doncaster are planning to ‘design out crime’ by sealing off alleyways between houses which have become a haven for criminals, vandals and vagrants.
However, the intimate association of the ores with the primary minerals in the magma, together with their absence from higher parts of the norite and from the extraneous rocks far from the contact, indicate to other investigators that they were not brought in from outside in vagrant solutions which followed the intrusion of the main magma, but that they were segregated within the magma essentially in place. The Economic Aspect of Geology
It had been a hard winter along the slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains, and still the towering treeless domes were covered with snow, and the vagrant winds were abroad, rioting among the clifty heights where they held their tryst, or raiding down into the sheltered depths of the Cove, where they seldom intruded. His "Day In Court" 1895
The Experience has reinvigorated downtown Las Vegas, for years the habitat of the serious gambler and the serious vagrant.
"She's a baggage, is that Rose Watson," she said, addressing a vagrant black-beetle in the kitchen which she had failed to squash, "with no more heart than a dead heifer."
rounding up vagrants and drunks and other undesirables
A pensioner who was harassed by aggressive beggars in Swindon town centre has backed a campaign to stop vagrants pestering shoppers for cash.
During most of the 18th century the forced enlistment of vagrants was also used to swell the ranks of the army.
Of the Mayflower colonists at Plymouth there were only 35 members of an identifiable Puritan congregation, with 67 other migrants ranging from entrepreneurs to vagrants.
Fals-Semblant is the pope who sells benefices, the histrion, the tumbler, the juggler, the adept of the vagrant race, who goes about telling tales and helping his listeners to forget the seriousness of life. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
The advocates claim that enforcing prohibitions against colonizing public and private space penalizes street vagrants merely for being homeless.
The child vagrant population is growing and is a virtual time bomb waiting to explode.
Identifying a clear-cut programme, the National Women's Action Committee announced a campaign to rid the streets of vagrants.
Were one able to follow the example set us, among cities, by Leipsic (where the word pauperism is absolutely non - existent), we should have effectually turned the corner out of the ill - kept vagrant road into which Henry VIII first led us, when "pauperism" began to be a sore in the midst of England's healthy body of citizens. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
A vagrant who lived rough for a time in Stromness was committed to a psychiatric hospital on Friday, after a sheriff in Wick rejected a plea to grant the man the freedom to return to his nomadic lifestyle in Orkney.
It houses, clothes, and feeds orphans, abandoned children, and vagrant children from dysfunctional families, ranging from 5-17 years of age.
But ideals are easy; the acid test is how you relate to the individual vagrant, and all his dirt. NIGHT SISTERS
vagrant hippies of the sixties
Erratic and vagrant instincts tormented me, and these I was obliged to control or rather suppress for fear of growing in any degree enthusiastic, and thus drawing attention to the 'lioness' -- the authoress. Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2
Of course he was in exile and did have a great affinity for those kinds of characters, for tramps and vagrants and displaced, placeless people.
That section also covers breeding, winter, passage migration, or vagrant records for each species as applicable.
Yesterday he was of neither mark nor likelihood; a vagrant boy, the attendant on a relative, of whose sane judgment he himself had not the highest opinion; but now he had become, he knew not why, or wherefore, or to what extent, the custodier, as the Scottish phrase went, of some important state secret, in the safe keeping of which the Regent himself was concerned. The Abbot
The three vagrants then rendezvoused in Barterman's room and used Perterson's hair to climb down to the ground.
Only by donning a woolly cap did he draw a parallel to his best-known character, the anti-corporate vagrant Hutch Owen.
I am now no better than your pregnant vagrant friend in the eyes of the government, and I expect I will be treated with exactly the same lack of sympathy.
The nesting population in North America may not be self-sustaining, and is supplemented by an influx of European vagrants.
She smiled to herself at vagrant impulses which arose from nowhere and suggested that she rumple his hair; while he desired greatly, when they tired of reading, to rest his head in her lap and dream with closed eyes about the future that was to be theirs. Chapter 20
But then tramps and vagrants manage pretty well without any of those, although one couldn't say most look happy about it.
The vagrant, who was filthy and smelled like sewage, walked alongside the man and kept tugging at his elbow while demanding money.
I have to find my vagrant husband for the next dance, and I expect to see you two out there, too.
His eyes scanned the yard, but the only sound to be heard now was the gentle tinkle of the windchimes as the night-time breeze played with a few vagrant strands of his hair.
The civic authorities plead helplessness in feeding the vagrant population and point out that a proposal to rehabilitate them in the suburbs is hanging fire.
I must go down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life.
Particularly in the north of England and Scotland the word tinker was applied not only to people who roamed around fixing kitchenware, but to any vagrant or itinerant. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
These once-a-year events, where the city's vagrants would move from the warm soup factories in the north to their usual habitat of the Strongbow breweries in the city's south, were the scourge of the middle classes.
The despair and hopelessness of these unfortunate individuals whom we term vagrants are always in full view, right before our eyes, a constant reminder that our values are not what they should be.
A couple of blocks away from the muzak and smooth elevators of the mall, I arrived at a grim neighbourhood of porn cinemas and shuffling vagrants.
There was a vagrant family living there and when I asked them what this place was, they said it was a Jewish school for children.
I asked him what he, as a sharp lad, thought was the cause of so many boys becoming vagrant pickpockets?
I uphold the law of this realm - and the law states quite clearly that vagrants are rogues and vagabonds.
The town has shelters and food handouts for vagrants.
He showed the guy his badge, and aked him for his ID, and the vagrant said “Er, sorry, I left my wallet on my dresser at home.” Christian Science Monitor on Immigration and Environmentalism
At that period an actor, unless protected by the licence of a nobleman or gentleman, was virtually a vagrant before the law, while felonies committed by scholars were still clergyable. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
This bird may have been a visitor from Victoria, or a vagrant from the population in eastern Asia.
Snowy Plovers are rare vagrants to eastern Washington in April and May.
The development of vagrant scholars (clerici vagi) is connected with the foundation of the universities, as students wandered about to visit these newly founded institutions of learning. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Nikon D300, 600 mm lens, 1.4 extender, ISO 640, f/13, 1/640 sec Question: This dichromatic Ethiopian mystery bird is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. Mystery bird: Pied wheatear, Oenanthe pleschanka
He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. July « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
When Atlas Bakery permanently turned off the ovens and left the building it became, over the past five years, a favourite spot for vagrants, pigeons and party organisers.
[T] he Seventies were about as sober as a meths-swilling vagrant waylaying passers-by to tell them that the Archbishop of Canterbury has planted electrodes in his brain. Book Review: Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen « A Progressive on the Prairie
It's one of those movies that celebrates vagrants at the expense of people who are settled down in life, but then expects us to be happy when the main vagrants in the story all decide to settle down at the end.
Nineteenth-century legislation very often targeted the social control of abandoned or orphaned children, since unruly vagrant youths were seen as potentially dangerous to society.
These eighteenth-century statutes authorize the arrest of vagrants, vagabonds, and nightwalkers, among others.
Just saw a sign in a downtown parkade proclaiming "No skateboarding, no animals, no soliciting, no vagrants. We don't want your kind here
Although most of the birds sighted are to be expected in an ordinary spring, each year there is sure to be at least one outstanding vagrant.
Under the plans, instead of money being given to vagrants, well-meaning shoppers can put it in yellow collection boxes dotted around the major stores in Swindon.
Ten steps from the Siberian lanceolated warbler in its tiny field of oats, a vagrant thrush nightingale hops on a garden wall looking like a robin without a red breast. A Year on the Wing
The civic space in the middle of the complex, which is utilised mainly by vagrants and is largely untouched by the current redevelopment proposal, would be both ideal and ample for such purpose.
The 1856 County and Borough Act was motivated partly by dread of vagrant criminality associated with the end of the Crimean War and the prospect of a footloose army of unemployed returning soldiers.
Vagrants, tramps and casuals were strictly separated from the resident pauper inmates housed in the gothic splendour of the Main Workhouse.
A vagrant breath of hot air fluttered the ends of his black silk tie.
He knew that the ruling class are in some ways as much outsiders as vagrants and dossers, which is why the landowner has a sneaking sympathy for the poacher.
She has a group of friends, all vagrant children eking out a living doing odd jobs, from boot polishing to selling flowers to rag-picking.
When Stern bought his first camera in 1948, he wandered around the Bowery in Chinatown, photographing vagrants.
The advocates' favorite justification for keeping vagrants on the street in plain view was that the shelters were ‘dangerous.’
He said firefighters extinguished a smaller fire at the property about a year ago, and the building had become known as a hangout for vagrants. News | SJ | http://www.goupstate.com
Even the Hudson seems crystalline, vagrant chunks of ice drifting spectrally out to sea.
In addition to existing handouts, vagrants can choose from a list of new options of receiving free dental care, employment assistance, and substance abuse counseling.
In true horror movie style this teenage utopia deteriorates when a wandering vagrant infects them with a deadly, flesh-eating virus.
The vagrants from the casual ward had disappeared at the sight of the policeman; the street was empty.
Gibbie was so satisfied with her appearance that, come of age as he was, and vagrant no more, he first danced round her several times with a candle in his hand, much to the danger but nowise to the detriment of her finery, then set it down, and executed his old lavolta of delight, which, as always, he finished by standing on one leg. Sir Gibbie
I could not understand why so often, in the literature of vagabondage, the vagrant beggar was described as a hypocrite.

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