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Example sentences for "vagabondage"

Lexicographically close words:
vadis; vadmal; vae; vaga; vagabond; vagabonds; vagabone; vagaries; vagary; vaghi
  1. Soon afterwards, he became gate-keeper for the winter at Tzaratzine; but the summer had hardly come before he began his vagabondage again, in the course of which he undertook a thousand little jobs in order to keep himself alive.

  2. It was two hundred years since the same expedient had been tried by Protector Somerset in England, during the intolerable state of vagabondage which followed the rage for pasture farming under the first Tudors.

  3. Bohemianism indeed is largely an attitude of dress; Vagabondage an attitude of spirit.

  4. In France to-day morbidity and Vagabondage are inseparable.

  5. Some I know are inclined to regard Goldsmith as one of the Vagabond band; but, although a charming Vagabond in many ways, he did not express his Vagabondage in his writings.

  6. There is something stifling and unhealthy about the atmosphere, and one turns with relief to the vagabondage of men like Whitman, who are "enamoured of growth out of doors.

  7. IV There is a certain type of Vagabondage which may be covered by the term "Bohemianism.

  8. And Vagabondage can be approached only through the gateway of Romanticism.

  9. But he lacked the picturesque vigour of Borrow His utterances on the Indian character considered Thoreau and civilization Swagger and Vagabondage IV Thoreau as a thinker 104 His Orientalism "Donatello" (?

  10. His Vagabondage is shown best in his purely imaginative work, and in the autobiographical sketches.

  11. But with the pre-Raphaelite Movement an impulse towards Vagabondage revived.

  12. Chiefly, I think, because of Thoreau's desperate efforts to justify his healthy Vagabondage by Emersonian formulas.

  13. So ended the vagabondage of the Commonwealth.

  14. Then began the vagabondage of the strolling player.

  15. It was the voice of a small boy, its weak treble broken by that preternatural hoarseness which only vagabondage and the habit of premature self-assertion can give.

  16. He kindled the imagination of men, proclaimed the joys of vagabondage in a manner that thrilled many hearts.

  17. Much has been written about the causes of vagabondage in Spain.

  18. Direct legislation against vagabondage was frequent, but was evaded as often as enacted.

  19. Vagabondage is no doubt the kindergarten of criminals, because there are many criminals among tramps, but the true vagabond is one only because of his inclination for tramping.

  20. It may, perhaps, be said that the enforcement of the laws of vagabondage belongs to the most interesting of the pyschological researches of the criminal judge.

  21. The real misery of vagabondage is the misery of having nothing to do and nowhere to go, the misery of being derelict of God and Man, the misery of the idle, poor or rich.

  22. The reaction against vagabondage will come from the children themselves.

  23. And you remember how after that season of vagabondage and prodigality he resolved to go and weep out his sorrows on the bosom of parental forgiveness.

  24. But under these deceptive titles are the same cheating and the same betting, the same drunkenness and the same vagabondage and the same abominations that were to be found under the old horse-racing system.

  25. So that Borrow must really have wandered into Portugal in that earlier and more melancholy apprenticeship to vagabondage concerning which there is so much surmise and so little knowledge.

  26. II Success in vagabondage depends largely on distinct and indispensable traits of character--diligence, patience, nerve, and politeness.

  27. As this was the point where our vagabondage was properly to begin, I soon had my eye on watch for what American tramps call a "town bum.

  28. VIII A friend at my elbow, to whom vagabondage is a terra incognita, remarks just at this juncture: "You ought to tell just how the tramp gets his three set-down meals a day.

  29. IV Something remains to be said about the causes of vagabondage in Russia and what is being done to suppress it.

  30. The aristocrat of city vagabondage is represented by what I call the room-beggar.

  31. How much they will aid in lessening the professional vagabondage of the country remains to be seen.

  32. I experienced this muscular instruction at one unfortunate time in my life, and I must say that it is one of the best remedies for vagabondage that exist.

  33. But the natural course of events took me out of vagabondage soon, and it was not until quite recently that I heard any more of Bughouse Mary.

  34. Almost every third boy that one meets in American vagabondage hails from "York.

  35. There would have been an absurdity in that, he thought: as if it could matter to him whose face she chose for her unstudied sketches--mere vagabondage of the pencil.

  36. Again she argued with herself, as she had so often argued before, that his love had never been more than a truant fancy, a transient folly, the merest vagabondage of an idle brain.

  37. She did not know how far her random sketches--some of them mere vagabondage of the pencil, jotted down half unconsciously--might betray the secrets of her inner life to the cold eyes of Miss Granger.

  38. Also, I had fairly intimate glimpses in the course of that delectable interval of vagabondage of several notable frontier characters whom no present-day wanderer by the ways of the Yellowstone can ever hope to meet.

  39. In any case there will soon be a grave economic crisis, for, unless prompt measures are adopted, a large loose vagabondage will grow up all over the land.

  40. There is gipsy blood in their veins, undying vagabondage behind all their sleepy contentment.

  41. He missed the atmosphere of vagabondage that had inspired and stimulated his early boyhood.

  42. In construction it savours rather of the method by which it was originally inspired; but for all that it is fascinating reading, saturated with the atmosphere of vagabondage and the gypsy encampment.

  43. After years of wandering and vagabondage he was to settle down as a landed proprietor.

  44. We seem to trace in the lament a change from habits of simple vagabondage to professional dependence, as minstrels and secretaries, upon men of rank in Church and State, which came over the Goliardic class.

  45. In his years of vagabondage Bridge had never crossed that invisible line which separates honest men from thieves and murderers and which, once crossed, may never be recrossed.

  46. She learned the accompaniments, and the two led, so far as I can discover, a delightful life of vagabondage for several weeks.

  47. The little girl forgot her rage in listening to the song, the words of which reminded her of dear Nonna Lisa and her own joys of a four weeks' vagabondage spent in the old Italian's company.

  48. Your irresponsible vagabondage will leave her in perpetual loneliness.

  49. Roguery and vagabondage are severely punished by our laws, and you have brought your neck uncommonly near the gallows by your act of highway robbery.

  50. Minor poets have told us that ‘the Gipsy’s life is a joyous life,’ and plays and operas have been written to illustrate the superiority of vagabondage over civilisation.

  51. The subject of vagabondage is not, however, confined in its interest to the Metropolis and its adjacent parts.

  52. Vagabondage is not a heritage with him, as it is with the genuine Gipsies.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vagabondage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    discursion; errantry; itinerancy; nomadism; ramble; rambling; roaming; rove; roving; straying; vagrancy; wandering; wanderlust