"On the doss," they call vagabondage here, which corresponds to "on the road" in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The People of the Abyss] Reference
In its simplest form the temper of adventure has given us the profusion of pleasant verses which we know as the poetry of 'vagabondage' and 'the open road'. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
This was true Alpine wandering — sweet vagabondage. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
But this terrible vagabondage and disreputable connection!. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Little Ironies] Reference
All crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Went from cheery vagabondage to cold blooded luxury in four years. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Plant, Meet Alison Krauss] Reference
Ruth knew well that Fred Hatfield's was no ordinary case of vagabondage. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
That astronomers are like mercantile purists who would deny commercial vagabondage. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Well, he had nine minutes more, by his two-dollar watch; nine minutes of vagabondage. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
The word seems to be a new one and comprises both extravagance and vagabondage, whim and errantry. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1971 - Presentation Speech] Reference
A confessed failure, he yet refuses to accept the punishment, and swerves aside from the slum to vagabondage. From Wordnik.com. [THE TRAMP] Reference
In general, brigandage and vagabondage increased as prices rose from 50 percent to 100 percent throughout France. From Wordnik.com. [1811, Jan. 19] Reference
She learned the accompaniments, and the two led, so far as I can discover, a delightful life of vagabondage for several weeks. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Which, if not strictly true, is approximately so, if taken to express that Durdles may always be found in a state of vagabondage somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
Jupiter's satellite, Europa, he had neither wealth nor influence; he'd left these behind when he deserted Earth for a life of vagabondage among the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures of Vibration] Reference
In each of the centres traversed in the course of his sentimental vagabondage he tried to find a woman in whom was embodied all the scattered charms of the district. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His childhood was followed by years of vagabondage. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
This was true Alpine wandering -- sweet vagabondage. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900] Reference
They can't get over the fascinations of vagabondage. From Wordnik.com. [A First Family of Tasajara] Reference
It meant a rise from vagabondage to position among his people. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Zeitoon] Reference
Durdles may always be found in a state of vagabondage somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
At the age of sixteen he ran away, and began a life of vagabondage. From Wordnik.com. [History of Education] Reference
They had climbed it together during that summer vagabondage, nineteen years before. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
My finer reverence has been for benches in the sun and the vagabondage of a bus-top. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys to Bagdad] Reference
In very truth, her days of vagabondage were over, yet the fact brought her no happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Miles to Arden] Reference
For the first time Maya realized how necessary the sunshine is for a life of vagabondage. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Maya the Bee] Reference
Accustomed to the Spartan fare of vagabondage I plunged into the dishes head foremost like a hungry puppy. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
Arrested and condemned to be deported for vagabondage, he escaped repeatedly, but was at length imprisoned. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Saints and Seers] Reference
This charm of pauperized vagabondage seems all along to have been Satan's most serious bait to human nature. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
That is ever the way of it; it is the dogs who can better tell glorious vagabondage from inglorious rascality. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Miles to Arden] Reference
Was it not enough that her days of vagabondage would be over -- along with the company of tinkers and such like?. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Miles to Arden] Reference
A week by the shore, and then the rest of the time spent in vagabondage among the mountains, would suit me very well. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
There is a degree of hopeless and irreclaimable vagabondage expressed in this epithet, which may not be generally understood. From Wordnik.com. [Urban Sketches] Reference
She cursed her irresponsible love of vagabondage along with her freedom of speech and manner and her lack of conservative judgment. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Miles to Arden] Reference
Soon Aristide formed a collection of his tricks and doings wherewith he would entertain the chance acquaintances of his vagabondage. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
Still it shouldn't, for right in the depths of their poverty and their pocket-hunting vagabondage lay the germ of my coming good fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
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