vagrant

• The effect was to strengthen the prejudice which held that playgoing was immoral in itself, and that an actor deserved to be treated as a 'vagrant'--the class to which he legally belonged. —  English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
• He was committed for three months as a vagrant, and one of his horses was sold to defray the expenses of his apprehension, examination, &c While writing this part of the GIPSIES' ADVOCATE, the author knows that a poor, aged, industrious woman, with whom he has been long acquainted, had her donkey taken from her, and that a man with four witnesses swore that it was his property. —  The Gipsies' Advocate or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of The English Gipsies
• He had found the man at nightfall sitting under the shelter of some tea-tree sticks before a fire; asked him what he was doing there; said he was camping out; had come from Melbourne looking for work; was a blacksmith; took him in charge as a vagrant, and locked him up; all his property was the clothes he wore, an old blanket, a tin billy, a clasp knife, a few crusts of bread, and old pipe, and half a fig of tobacco; could find no money about him That last fact settled the matter. —  The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned
• But this vagrant was a philosopher, a poet, a naturalist, and a mathematician. —  Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
• It is because he will not be a vagrant, then, that you seek to count him as a vagrant. —  The Piazza Tales

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