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Example sentences for "vagrant"

Lexicographically close words:
vagina; vaginal; vaginalis; vago; vagrancy; vagrants; vagrom; vague; vaguely; vagueness
  1. The Wey's next turn is round the village of Send, where its navigable branch makes eastward, while vagrant channels stray off a little north to touch Woking.

  2. When the branches of the Wey unite about a mile east of Old Woking, it is only to split up again in vagrant loops, tangled by the taking in of a tributary from the commons near Aldershot.

  3. We sigh and cover them with mould, But though the vagrant wind blow hot, blow cold, No hint of life beneath the dust we see; Then comes the magic hour when we are old, And lo!

  4. One opened long ago, and I A vagrant soul, slipped through, Bewildered and forgetting all The wider world I knew.

  5. Here his vagrant thoughts wandered to remembrance of how sick he had been from overeating himself on sweets at the betrothal ceremonies;--that was his very earliest real recollection--when he was five years old.

  6. Babar would doff shoes and wander barefoot for hours, content with a chance shot after an escaping deer, or a chance following of his own vagrant thoughts.

  7. The Colin is also distinguished from the Partridge by its vagrant habits.

  8. It is remarkable for its vagrant character, and forms a singular contrast to the stay-at-home habits of the genus generally.

  9. Strange power of Innocence, to turn To its own hue whate'er comes near, And make even vagrant Passion burn With purer warmth within its sphere!

  10. But when I feel my lightened mind No more by grovelling gold confined, Then loose I all such clinging cares, And cast them to the vagrant airs.

  11. Without speaking another word, Landolin went on, while the vagrant called after him with threats and insult.

  12. The vagrant made a motion toward the plain.

  13. He revolved through the family system like a vagrant comet in its orbit; sometimes visiting one branch, and sometimes another quite remote; as is often the case with gentlemen of extensive connections and small fortunes in England.

  14. On my second visit for oil and vinegar, two strangers from off a vagrant yacht which had entered the little harbor nudged one another and demanded to know whether either had ever seen anything like it.

  15. The first test of strength came when a vagrant evangelist from Alabama arrived and desired to use the church for a series of evening lectures.

  16. Temptations were bound to come; they came at odd intervals; they came here in this hotel dining room, where he could catch some vagrant odour of whiskey from an indefinable source.

  17. Standing, she gazed down at the man, then leaned forward and turned the unfortunate vagrant upon his back.

  18. To become a vagrant with this tramp printer--why, this would be to shake off all the shackles of purpose!

  19. I am, then, a vagrant Gypsy body, a tramper, a wandering blacksmith.

  20. Yes, His banner ever floats, bearing its own inscription upon it to win back our vagrant hearts, and remind us of the original terms.

  21. He had a set of people belonging to him who constantly patrolled the streets armed, to apprehend all vagrant and disorderly persons.

  22. For answer the infuriated vagrant rushed at him and kicked.

  23. And Kate Kilgour, remembering the vagrant on the broad highway, wrote down the arraignment of this person, trying to understand her emotions.

  24. The vagrant was orally appraising his find, exhibiting the wisdom of one who has begged garments at back doors for the purposes of peddling them to second-hand shops.

  25. And how could I expect a vagrant to understand?

  26. The vagrant shifted his gaze from those eyes and backed away.

  27. The vagrant toiled two weeks at his heavy task and when the man Jose was about again the volunteer slipped away without farewell.

  28. His art is all he has whereby to live; for the spirit that recruits the ranks of art is a vagrant and fitful one, and does not qualify men for steady habits of lucrative drudgery.

  29. Finding a mercantile clerkship ill-adapted to his poetic and vagrant humor, he left Geneva and went to Lausanne, where he tried music as a profession.

  30. The doors and windows of these garrets are not exactly air-tight, the wind comes rumbling down the chimney, the stairs are narrow and steep, and the garrets are occasionally invaded by inquisitive cats and a vagrant rat; but what of that?

  31. Through the living room at the Elms vagrant breezes entered, loitered, and drifted out again, leaving behind them scents of sun-warmed flowers.

  32. Had not a vagrant breeze tossed it, obtrusively, upon her lap, she would probably not have looked at it.

  33. Or had it been but a vagrant guess of a clouded mind?

  34. There are five species of shark-like rays, which have all the outward form and appearance and vagrant mode of life of their prototype, and four species of sharks that might pass as rays.

  35. Vagrant Englishmen are still so benighted that the desire for sweet and aromatic fruit vaunts over that which gives delight merely to the eye.

  36. Yet his vagrant son has received such gifts from nature--his youth was so rich in promise--his boyhood so glowed at the dream of glory?

  37. He took a miserable house without the Boulevard, in the quarter of the Batignolles, and only crept back to the neighborhood of his old princely quarters, like the vagrant starveling that he was, at dusk.

  38. Doubtless he does, ma'am--and better than his vagrant son ever can.

  39. Therefore it was that the two ate the herbaceous sauces with an extra relish, as those conscious of having a larger space for the play of vagrant elbows than their less fortunate brethren.

  40. The graveyard was unfenced, and vagrant cattle browsed upon its rank herbage.

  41. Then, as to the noise, never did I sleep at that enormous Hen and Chickens [2] to which usually my destiny brought me, but I had reason to complain that the discreet hen did not gather her vagrant flock to roost at less variable hours.

  42. It was meant as a specimen of fruits, gathered hastily and without effort, by a vagrant but thoughtful mind: through the coercion of its theme, sometimes it became ambitious; but I did not give to it an ambitious title.

  43. Yet words, in the agony of their vagueness, haunt my mind, like vagrant clouds hovering over hills, waiting for some chance wind to relieve them of their rain.

  44. Other years were to follow, but their vagrant days, no longer gathered within the fold of that name uttered in her voice, stray and are scattered.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vagrant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.