Adjective : a vagabond tribe. ,vagabond habits. ,a vagabond voyage. From Dictionary.com.
In fact, in fact, players were defined as vagabonds-criminals subject to arrest and whipping. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
There are certain stars that have such irregular, uncertain, vagarious ways that they were called vagabonds, or planets, by the early astronomers. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work] Reference
By his example we learned that "Kind hearts are more than coronets," and simple men of worth are infinitely better than titled vagabonds of Norman blood. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
I wished Master Muir to do the same thing when we were captured by these chaps you call vagabonds -- and rightly are they named, for viler vagabonds do not walk the earth -- ". From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder; or, the inland sea] Reference
Being 'vagabonds' by law in England, the truth of their histories he tells us is not varnished over by delicate omissions. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
The Government could not tolerate the presence of the women and finally they were sent to gaol as "vagabonds". From Wordnik.com. [PART I] Reference
They were malefactors and vagabonds of the worst character. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
That would teach them to take in vagabonds from the streets. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
It will distract these vagabonds, and throw them off their guard. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
Excepting vagabonds and fraudulent debtors, who fled to them from. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
"To the devil with you all, vagabonds that ye are!" vociferated he. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
I hear that the road between this and Bologna swarms with vagabonds. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
A rough old place is my village of vagabonds in winter, and I am glad. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
She did not have the physical strength that dictated the law for vagabonds. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
“May the devil run a-hunting with these rascally vagabonds!” said the doctor. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
How do you know that it helps to make such a frightful host of drunkards and vagabonds?. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
He did not know how or when or where my grandfather had first fallen in with these vagabonds. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
(Soundbite of song, "vagabonds") Mr. LOURIS: (Singing) Carry on you vagabonds, everyone's gone away. From Wordnik.com. [Gary Louris: Once a Jayhawk, Now a 'Vagabond'] Reference
Baalberith: wherewith he hired to himself men that were needy, and vagabonds, and they followed him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
The desire of booty prevented the vagabonds from thinking of the danger to which they were exposing themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
"We take care of an old man who people say is crazy, and folks call us Bohemians and gypsies and even vagabonds.". From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
In a short time these vagabonds spread themselves over the desert, and robbed and plundered travellers and caravans. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
For, say what you will, it is a most disagreeable thing to admit downright dirty vagabonds into our elegant dwellings. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Each of the fascinating vagabonds is attended by a bird-of-paradise-colored dog, with a crimson tail waggingly depicted. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Double-shuffles were danced on the platform, as if the approaching train charged these vagabonds with some of its own strength. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
On the other hand, in Lowland Scots it grew to be a term of contempt and reproach, as describing a class of frenzied vagabonds. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
I confess I hate these vagabonds right soundly; but necessity demands that we butter and sugar the mover until we carry our ends. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
"Do be quiet, Fred, here is Judge Sharp," said Mrs. Farnham, fretfully; "I won't be teased in this way about a parcel of vagabonds!". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Soon after, the three vagabonds appear in decent clothes, crying for help; they pretend to have been attacked and robbed by brigands. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
It is astonishing how well these wandering vagabonds know how to toss up a savory mess, and how admirably they understand its enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Italian vagabonds, who have been in prison and find it best to leave their country, assemble here, and tragedies are constantly occurring. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
The one set comprised the lucky ones of fortune -- the butterflies of fashion; the other the strugglers for life -- the vagabonds of fate. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
Would he not seize the opportunity to indulge in his favorite craving, and, having sold his property, swell the army of homeless vagabonds?. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
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