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Good heavens, when I so resigned I was headed for the Deanship of the College of Agriculture in that university — I, the star rover, the red-blooded adventurer, the vagabondish Cain of the centuries, the militant priest of remotest times, the moon-dreaming poet of ages forgotten and today unrecorded in man's history of man!

Chapter 1 2010

What's different now is that Brown is sicker than the public knows, and the public wouldn't be so quick to think he was deviously plotting another vagabondish train-hop if it knew the whole story.

USATODAY.com - Medical complications may force Brown from bench 2005

Author and subject had much in common: Irving had at least a kindly sympathy for the vagabondish inclinations of his predecessor, and with his humorous and cheerful regard of the world; perhaps it is significant of a deeper unity in character that both, at times, fancied they could please an intolerant world by attempting to play the flute.

Washington Irving 2004

The bubbs, one of the basic inventions that made interplanetary travel possible, were, for all their almost vagabondish simplicity, still a concession in lightness and compactness for atmospheric transit, to that first and greatest problem -- breaking the terrific initial grip of Earth's gravity from the ground upward, and gaining stable orbital speed.

The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

Tethered out upon the vagabondish grass was -- not one motor-car, but three!

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

But San Francisco, out here as far as it can reach with one foot in the great Pacific, nearly a week from New York and a month away from China, some people wouldn't like it, but something vagabondish in me rejoices to have run away from them all.

Vignettes of San Francisco Almira Bailey

She should not have counted on his impulsive and vagabondish mind.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

When this ceremony ended Morcerf called for cigarettes and distributed them among the coterie; then he had leisure to examine Bouche-de-Miel; the latter had turned his back to the counter and leaned his elbows upon it; in this position, with his cigarette between his teeth, he looked the perfect picture of vagabondish idleness.

Monte-Cristo's Daughter Edmund Flagg

Good heavens, when I so resigned I was headed for the Deanship of the College of Agriculture in that university — I, the star rover, the red-blooded adventurer, the vagabondish Cain of the centuries, the militant priest of remotest times, the moon-dreaming poet of ages forgotten and today unrecorded in man's history of man!

Chapter 1 1915

Kirkwood got out, not without a qualm of regret at leaving the compartment; therein, at least, they had some title to consideration, by virtue of their tickets; now they were utterly vagabondish, penniless adventurers.

The Black Bag Louis Joseph Vance 1906