Thus the brothers came upon all the homeless ones: low prostitutes seeking a pallet, vagabonds stretched on the benches under the trees, rogues who prowled hither and thither on the lookout for a good stroke.
The Anarchists were a mere herd of vagabonds and thieves, said he.
All the scum, all the vagabonds who had been dragging themselves about since daybreak on the lookout for whatever chance might offer them, provided it were not work!
On light-headed fellows and vagabonds one can place no dependence, and few others are to be found.
She said no--that tramps and vagabonds never came into the heart of the forest, and always kept clear of the keeper's house, as they never knew where he and his gun might be.
The woman belonged to a band of poachers and vagabonds they could not get hold of.
Then follows a very lengthy list of such as are "of a higher degree and are to be accounted as Rogues, Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars.
Of the adventures they met with in that region of vagabonds and horse stealers, we shall have something to relate hereafter.
It was supposed, therefore, that these vagabonds had been on his trail, and robbed him of part of his cavalry.
But of late (for reasons which shall be hereafter mentioned) these honest vagabonds have been obliged to receive amongst them a new colony, and to submit to new laws and new forms of government.
In the time of Frezier and Shelvocke, this place served only as a retreat to vagabonds and outlaws, who fled thither from all parts of Brazil.
Sidenote: The sturdy vagabonds shall be punished,] "Secondly, you shall have special regard that all sturdy vagabonds and valiant beggars may be punished according to the statute made for that purpose.
Another shower began to fall, and there could be no more sorrowful sight than that band of disheartened soldiers, shuffling along through the rain, like beggars and vagabonds on the public highway.
Idle vagabonds who would not work were lodged in it.
Bicetre was the home for all vagabonds and masterless men, the sturdy beggars who demanded alms sword in hand, and soldiers who, when their pay was in arrears, robbed upon the highway.
Some of the vagabonds will turn up this very evening, you'll see if they don't.
What little intercourse I had with the brute animal was by message, in which I always employed such low bred slaves and vagabonds that their evidence would not be received in a trial for robbing a hen roost.
My Provost guard daily put to death, as is their duty, thieves and vagabonds; and is my crown to be slandered with whatever these thieves and vagabonds may have said to our hot cousin of Burgundy and his wise counsellors?
Be there such vagabonds in other lands than France?
That we have deferred our departure too long, and that some of those European vagabonds we were speaking of just now may have discovered our placer.
Perhaps one of those European vagabonds may have discovered our placer, for those scoundrels have a peculiar scent for gold.
We are not vagabonds to be got rid of in that way; we must know if we are justified in accepting the proposals you have just made.
A rough old place is my village of vagabonds in winter, and I am glad Alice did not come.
To-night the general is in an uproar of good humour after a storm, for did not some vagabonds steal the danger-posts intended to warn the public of the location of the firing-line, so that new ones had to be sent for?
He recognised in these vagabonds the true sons and daughters of "the Great Mother who mixes all our bloods.
Borrow wrote of vagabonds and vagabondage; it did not mitigate his offence in the eyes of the critics or the public that he wrote well about them.
Nothing shows more clearly the power of Borrow's personality over rogues and vagabonds than the two periods spent in Spanish prisons--at Madrid and at Seville.
The gypsies were not the only vagabonds of Borrow's acquaintance at this period.
Yet vagabondsare gallows-birds, and gallows-birds are ravens.
Nobody spoke, but, standing silent, all stared at the two quaint little vagabonds as mild kine stare at passing sheep in a quiet lane.
We have been having so much trouble with the vagabondslately we must all go armed.
The vagabonds have had a disturbing effect on morale and it's impossible to suppress the news entirely.
In order to people Acadia, De Monts begged permission of Henri Quatre to take the vagabonds that might be collected in the cities, or wandering at large through the country.
You know that it is the sons of workingmen who become vagabonds and tramps, and who are sent to jail, and it is the daughters of workingmen who are forced into houses of shame.
In the end it will become a disgrace to be called a Lichtensteiner, and I have a hundred times regretted, that in my pious zeal I opened a path for the entrance of these vagabonds into the poor city.
Alf impatiently, 'if this tailor-spirit is to set such vagabonds upon the judgment-seat of my native city, I may soon repent that I refused the crown.
Vagabonds handed over to the press-gang, Vanguard, H.
These filibusters were generally the most worthless and desperate vagabonds to be found in all the Southern States.
There were the vile, the unprincipled, the desperate; vagabonds seeking whom they might devour; criminals escaping the penalty of the laws which they had violated.
Dennis also attacked actors generally, as rogues and vagabonds in the eye of the law, and liable to be whipped at the King's porter's lodge.
Even at that time there was a Tothill Fields House of Correction, whither vagabonds were sent, who used to earn scraps by scraping trenchers in the tents pitched in Petty France.
Behind these hardy volunteers straggled as many of the militia company as had been able to answer the sudden call, merchants, clerks, artisans, andvagabonds who seemed none too eager to meet the bloodthirsty Yemassees.
There were almost no crops for food and among the population were many runaways from England, loafers and vagabonds who hated the sight of work.
They recalled his nocturnal life with the vagabonds on the Alameda of Hercules.
The vagabonds were shouting at the very steps, but two guards rode up on horseback and quelled the disturbance, afterward escorting all the way up Alcala Street the famous Juan Gallardo--"the greatest man in the world.
But what was his astonishment when he learned from his ranger that those noblemen who, in conjunction with him, had undertaken the war against these vagabonds had dispersed and retired to their seats without giving him notice!
He had grown grey at the toll-bar, and by attending to his office for forty years had become an infallible physiognomist of all the vagabonds about.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vagabonds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
