Harsh punishments for sturdy vagabonds and masterless men.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The screenplay is more of an update on the classic round-up movie and the idea of masterless warriors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations with GoD: ‘The Forbidden Kingdom’ Screenwriter John Fusco] Reference

` My hounds may a 'rin masterless.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Telfer of the Fair Dodshead] Reference

Every viewer, or at least more viewer, would act as "masterless" men and women, making their viewing choices by their own lights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grant McCracken] Reference

"masterless" architecture • Distributed, redundant storage • Sync without Internet • Work disconnected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Having obtained thee, O Acyuta, we are not masterless. "'".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Life – Guards, began to fly masterless out of the confusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Mortality] Reference

Doorman: "'Yet many grey lords go sadly to the masterless men.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alright...show of hands! Who HASN'T read Terry Pratchett, yet?] Reference

Not so easy to do when you are a masterless man with an empty purse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

Alas, separated from the son of Pandu we all shall become masterless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

And I doubt if masterless men living wild would bother with captives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin In The Ice]

She rose to go upstairs again, into the dark, empty, masterless house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

Thou protectest always, O son of Kunti, the afflicted and the masterless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

But if these were masterless men, they were no skilled hands with horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil's Novice]

The woods are thick enough, masterless men have been known to haunt there.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rare Benedictine]

So, to sum it up: cats are independant animals and like to look masterless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing Kitty — Climb to the Stars] Reference

If he is slain by thee, thou canst then pierce through this masterless host.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

This boy looks half starved, half beaten, and treated like a masterless cur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joust]

So you are a wandering, masterless warrior without a chair to call your own.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Famous Design Junkies » 2009 » September] Reference

In the green dimness the three masterless men stood still as the trees, and waited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilgrim of Hate]

"One place is as good as another to masterless men and wanderers," quoth the huge Saxon.    From Wordnik.com.  [People of the Dark]

As always, she was at the mercy of a clear head, never masterless when a man was near her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

After that - well, I am a masterless man with Vondar Ustle gone - in a way he died for this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zero Stone]

And now there it lies — defenceless, masterless — exposed to all the robbers and plunderers.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Gabriel Borkman] Reference

What he did, he of necessity did alone; a masterless man had no friends, even among masterless men.    From Wordnik.com.  [People of the Dark]

And is not the condition of the laboring poor of other countries too often that of masterless slaves!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

Being non-resident, these overseers did no overseeing, and the actual servants were practically masterless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference

He should always maintain and protect the helpless, the masterless, and the old, and women that are widows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Have ye taken the land from the farmer, and given it to the tailor out of work and the candlemaker masterless? —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference

He was that old, masterless Pan-male, that could not even conceive of service; particularly the service of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

She knew that her cries could reach no mortal ear; and still the masterless vessel drifted, drifted on into the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference

She looked at me surprised, and answered carelessly, "His name is Kerkyon," as if I had asked it of some masterless dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King Must Die]

An intelligent English traveler has characterized as the most miserable and degraded of all beings, "a masterless slave.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

Crawl like masterless dogs in the back streets of the air, Creeping for the garbage of life, and biting with venomous mouths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

Yet I would fain have added other of our ‘masterless’ carols, which to-day seem to survive chiefly in the West of England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference

“There is a manner of roog, Sir Richard, a masterless man, at the door; a very forward fellow, and must needs speak with you.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

Widowed and masterless, with two children depending on me, how shall I, without thee, keep alive the pair, myself leading an honest life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

But it was taken by fell men whom the Enemy in his first strength had dominated, and who wandered homeless and masterless after his fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]