These eighteenth-century statutes authorize the arrest of vagrants, vagabonds, and nightwalkers, among others. |
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The jails are turned loose and the drunk-tank vagabonds gain the street, full of rotgut and the heat of morning. |
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During the early modern period, ballad-mongers and ballad-writers were classified along with actors, beggars, and street peddlers as vagabonds. |
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Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars. |
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I don't attract a clientele of vagabonds and rogues and scurrilous types with evil motives. |
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According children V.I.P treatment only helps to groom rogues and vagabonds in the long term. |
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It would be most unusual if there were not rogues and vagabonds in the industry. |
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He writes about artisans, peasants, the rural poor, vagabonds, and beggars. |
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We were vagabonds but now we have land, a home and we earn around at least 6,000 taka a month. |
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Vidocq served a lucrative apprenticeship with various ruffians, vagabonds and swindlers. |
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Cohen includes a category of songs about hoboes, tramps, vagabonds, etc. who populated the boxcars and rail-yards in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. |
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Beginning in sixteenth-century England, a distinct criminal culture of rogues, vagabonds, gypsies, beggars, cony-catchers, cutpurses, and prostitutes emerged and flourished. |
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Those who live on the streets are no longer the traditional marginalised members of society, beggars and vagabonds. |
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During this time, African peoples have been pushed into massacring each other and becoming vagabonds. |
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They wandered from one estate to another, got rude and took up vagrancy, and such vagabonds became notorious by their speech and deeds. |
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In this category fall some of the adaptive activities of psychotics, autists, pariahs, outcasts, vagrants, vagabonds, tramps, chronic drunkards and drug addicts. |
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Deserters from foreign armies, prisoners of war, criminals, vagabonds, tramps, and people whom the crimps had entrapped by fraud and violence were the bulk of the regiments. |
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A group of vagabonds and derelicts inhabit a shelter in Moscow, presided over by a fanatical leader who preaches the love of everyone for everyone. |
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Beggars, vagabonds, prostitutes, and criminals occupied the bottom of this social order, and might have made up as much as 10 to 20 per cent of the urban population. |
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Elizabethan England faced a mounting economic problem as the poor became poorer, and a growing army of vagabonds and beggars roamed the streets and countryside. |
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She got married one lunchtime and didn't tell her parents until she was four months pregnant, because my father was an actor, and actors then were kind of vagabonds, you know. |
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I think English Canada still regards actors as rogues and vagabonds to a great extent, people who are not to be trusted, not to be given credit cards, not to be allowed to buy houses. |
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Mother Teresa worked in the slums of Calcutta in streets infested with vagabonds who'd slit your throat for the price of a pappadum. |
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Only beach-combers and vagabonds are free of concern about such things. |
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They asked me to look after the AIDS patients and the vagabonds. |
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The authorities saw many people becoming what they regarded as vagabonds and thieves as a result of enclosure and depopulation of villages. |
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Our hostel welcomes all vagabonds and backpackers on a budget, a place where you can meet independent free-thinkers from around the world and possibly make friends for life. |
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A law passed a year later allowed vagabonds to be whipped and hanged. |
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Those who left their parishes in order to locate work were termed vagabonds and could be subjected to punishments, including whipping and putting at the stocks. |
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The Vagabonds, in effect, buy off the by-blow of their hired man's romance, and the action of the novel consists of what the present generation makes of that earlier gift. |
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