vagabondage

• So far from being disqualified from entering a school on account of vagabondage, the stranger student was accorded a warm welcome, especially if he was himself a scholar. —  Rashi
• It seems comparatively safe to assume that after the publication of Romantic Ballads he plunged into a life of roving and vagabondage, which, in all probability, was brought to an abrupt termination by either the loss or the exhaustion of his money. —  The Life of George Borrow
• They drift very early into a life of crime and vagabondage, become addicted to all of the vices which cross their path, are markedly egotistical, have no conception of social life, frequently desert their wives and families, and a great many of them finally end their days in jails or poorhouses Upon being imprisoned they are unable to adjust themselves to the strict régime, find difficulty in acquainting themselves with the prison regulations and in consequence have to be frequently disciplined. —  Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
• If Dr. Tucker will glance at the great increase of the cotton, tobacco, and sugar crops South, as shown in Agricultural Reports from 1865 to 1882 and reflect that NEGROES have been the producers of these crops, he will understand their indignation at his outrageous charges of "laziness and vagabondage:" and perhaps he will listen to their demand that he shall take back the unjust and injurious imputations which, without knowledge and discrimination, he makes against a whole race of people This impulse to thrift on the part of the Freedmen was no tardy and reluctant disposition. —  Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
• While, as a result of the development of humane feeling, England and the United States have been saying that ignorance, vagabondage, and misery ought to be abolished, Germany has said, 'They shall be!' —  The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe

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