I felt a little bit like a vagrant when my car broke down in the unfamiliar town. From LearnThat.org.
"Why, a vagrant is a man what wanders, and what has no money.". From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
What we are hearing about the home, Nancy, is that it was known as a vagrant home. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2005] Reference
She refused to call a vagrant or a street person anything other than god's people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2008] Reference
It has to be remembered that the vagrant is a dangerous person in more ways that one. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Its Causes] Reference
Some of these lichens are not attached to any substrate and are known as vagrant lichens or Wanderflechten. From Wordnik.com. [Namib desert] Reference
Was friendly fate flying danger signals by arranging and accentuating this vivid contrast, in order to recall his vagrant wits, to cement his wavering allegiance?. From Wordnik.com. [At the Mercy of Tiberius] Reference
Perhaps this is true -- but not without community support -- and what community wants to support a "vagrant" or a "bum" who can't even hold a job or make the house payments?. From Wordnik.com. [East Bound and Down: A Homeless March on Washington Part 1] Reference
However, the use of the word "vagrant" is calling Oedipus 'father the vagrant. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Then the fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant that nothing fears. From Wordnik.com. [In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs] Reference
"This is evidenced by the easy access that a so-called vagrant had to President Thabo Mbeki's residence. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It turns out that the "vagrant" was actually an undercover NYPD officer conducting an active investigation. From Wordnik.com. [--1010 WINS Newswatch Headlines] Reference
"I fear it is so," said I, "and I believe, of all habits, those of a vagrant are the most difficult to overcome. From Wordnik.com. [The Privateersman] Reference
"I fear it is so," said I, "and, I believe, of all habits, those of a vagrant are the most difficult to overcome. From Wordnik.com. [The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago] Reference
Gorki despises this kind of vagrant, and he never misses an opportunity in his stories to disassociate them from nature's true vagabonds. From Wordnik.com. [Russia's Tramp Novelist] Reference
This old tower is a complete brooding-place for vagrant birds. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Last year a vagrant pushed Thurmond in the Senate subway station. From Wordnik.com. [Strom Thurmond: Home On The Hill--Or Over It?] Reference
The daily routine of ordinary life kills off many a vagrant emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Alice asked, drawing the vagrant folds of her soft wrapper about her. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Mr. Harrington released him, and then turned to the vagrant and said. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
I certainly need no longer feel obliged to tie my vagrant heart to her. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Or am I like a vagrant who has no possessions and no heartening expectations?. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
I turned away feeling sick at heart, and directed my vagrant steps towards home. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Friedmann, Griscom, and Moore (1957: 213) suggest that this individual was a vagrant. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
The strength of the heart is wrapped about them, and no passing vagrant can carry them away. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The guy with bad odor is a friend of Munasifi's and not some hapless vagrant he chose to pick on. From Wordnik.com. [Remy Munasifi's 'Metro Song' rap takes on the D.C. subway so many love to hate] Reference
They don't lie so much as they regard truth as a homeless vagrant whom they don't choose to invite in. From Wordnik.com. [A Familiar Tale] Reference
The difference of treatment between vagrant children over and under nine years of age, is worthy of observation. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
Her fame was largely increased by the poet Goethe, who made her one of the many idols of his vagrant affections. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
To this end they sought out any vagrant fancies and inquisitive yearnings and wayward adventurousness, and destroyed them. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
They can pass a law that a man not supporting himself by labor shall be deemed a vagrant, and that a vagrant shall be sold. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Retrieving his vagrant thoughts, he caught the frank message of the upturned face, a message which startled as it pleased him. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
On April 5, 7, and 21, Miller (1955a: 175) recorded winter visitant or vagrant flocks of Pine Siskins in the Sierra del Carmen. From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
And as I said, I did: and this was the very reason why I broke with my relations, and became a vagrant instead of a king's heir. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
Here are their questions: Will I live here or have to move between them like a vagrant with a Jansport backpack and a portable DVD player?. From Wordnik.com. [Here is Mt. Vesuvius] Reference
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