As it was with the first murderer, so it must be with every murderer,--a fugitive and a vagabond he is compelled to be.
I would try this case before any twelve of those rebel prisoners, and feel certain of a verdict, and yet the gentlemen tell us this murder is like that of the commonestvagabond that ever walked the streets, and the crime no higher.
This man, as we know already, was a vagabond who was found in a field, carrying a branch covered with ripe apples, which had been broken off a tree in a neighboring orchard.
After we were better acquainted we found that close beneath his gentlemanly exterior lay a veritable wild and vagabond nature, a vagrant ancestral strain that nothing could tame.
Summer passed, and it was not until the leaves were smitten with frost and falling scarlet and gold in the autumn woods that Jiminy Christmas' vagabond blood tantalized him into faring forth.
Can you imagine that I will permit you any longer to remain with that vagabond Varney and yon crew of vauriens?
The vagabond law, then in force in St. Louis, made it possible for any stranger to be arrested on the simple grounds that he had no home.
When his last dollar had been parted with, Ben again became a vagabond in search of work.
A vagabond frontier man there asked a girl to dance.
Tell Ursula March she may marry you, or any other vagabond she pleases--it's no business of mine.
Besides, I don't think you ought to associate with such a person as this Cheap Jack--a vagabond stroller, whose past life nobody knows.
The baby-boy, now a sturdy vagabondof five years old, was digging an empty flower-bed.
We laughed then at their forlorn and vagabond appearance, and, in our turn, a month or two afterwards, furnished the same occasion for merriment to others.
But there were a score of vagabonddogs belonging to the neighbours, who served his purpose quite as well.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.
And all this fell like a golden rain into the lap of the little vagabond girl.
I knew perfectly well that she would, aunt, she is so fond of roving about; that comes from the vagabond blood of her mother, no doubt.
The old vagabond is going to fold his wings at last, and take care of his estate.
I pictured to myself the proud maiden before the vagabond actress, to whom she was now speaking as to an equal.
So interesting,' laughed Sanchia, 'that no doubt the heartless vagabond forgot to mention that he had just left me and that I had sent word by him that I was coming?
A half-drunken vagabondfrom no one knew where had staked out his claim and drained his bottle.
The young vagabond was there, engaged, as we approached him, in walking round and round his box on the palms of his hands with his feet in the air.
First of all, I renounce my vagabond existence: I shall dress like other people, set up a black coat, and go to evening parties.
So the club called a Jew, named Salomon, who at that time was well known to all the vagabond of art and literature, and had continual transactions with them.
I lead the life of a vagabond for my own good pleasure.
A poor vagabond applied to a bar tender in one of these hells glittering with crystalized tears and fine fixtures.
Tis the second time a Heydeck has tamely borne such an insult,--first my vagabond of a brother, and now you, my only son!
My cowardly vagabond of a brother has burdened my soul with another's blood!
I fancy that every one looks at me suspiciously, as the police looks on a vagabond whose passport is not in proper order, and who cannot state from whence he comes nor whither he is going.
Every path in life leads past human habitations, and whoever seeks admission into these must steady his steps that he may not be suspected of being a vagabond or a drunkard, and no peaceful citizen will let such a one cross his threshold.
There are some, however, who are disposed to wander off the reservation and lead a vagabond life.
I will neither trust you nor your master," said I; "you are a parcel of vagabond Pindharees.
I; "I learned the words from a vagabond who had been a Khidmutgar among them, and had seen their wild orgies.
And the doom laid on the race, "a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be on the earth," has not been revoked through all ages.
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
