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Sentence Examples Now, I'm going to start you off easy, down the slummy end of Chapel Street where the poor, backpacking, vagrant, and ugly are relegated to. A son's love is a vagrant thing and may be given and refused without reason. Only by donning a woolly cap did he draw a parallel to his best-known character, the anti-corporate vagrant Hutch Owen. But in Folkestone, the sun glinted off the sea and vagrant scavenging gulls wheeled around. Even the Hudson seems crystalline, vagrant chunks of ice drifting spectrally out to sea. We hear of these wild, vagrant saints, rather along the lines of John the Baptist. I have to find my vagrant husband for the next dance, and I expect to see you two out there, too. The King portrayed a female vagrant, complete with a garbage bag dress, who goes after a man in hope of satisfying her carnal desires. A crowd that clutched parcels of packaged joy had gathered around a joyless, shoeless vagrant who was dressed in newspaper-stuffed tatters. She said the bag belonged to a vagrant who frequented the area and spent the night at that same spot. That section also covers breeding, winter, passage migration, or vagrant records for each species as applicable. He's been a drug addict and a vagrant, and was once humiliatingly pursued by police over an unpaid cafe bill. So why would our own starveling country want two more of these vagrant landing-strips, whatever the asking price may turn out to be? Mackintosh beckoned from across the park, then sat down next to him like a vagrant on the make. Both societies were mistrustful of uncontained wanderers, though the colonies had few institutions in which to incarcerate the vagrant poor. The vagrant, who was filthy and smelled like sewage, walked alongside the man and kept tugging at his elbow while demanding money. I could not understand why so often, in the literature of vagabondage, the vagrant beggar was described as a hypocrite. Though he be a vagrant and wanderer, he knows that which must be done to heal this place. Although most of the birds sighted are to be expected in an ordinary spring, each year there is sure to be at least one outstanding vagrant. This bird may have been a visitor from Victoria, or a vagrant from the population in eastern Asia. Show More Sentences A recent law that bars police from rousting homeless people from the city has expanded the vagrant population in a city unused to street people. She has a group of friends, all vagrant children eking out a living doing odd jobs, from boot polishing to selling flowers to rag-picking. Police say he got the boys from the South Pattaya pier area where there are a lot of vagrant children. I asked him what he, as a sharp lad, thought was the cause of so many boys becoming vagrant pickpockets? The child vagrant population is growing and is a virtual time bomb waiting to explode. It houses, clothes, and feeds orphans, abandoned children, and vagrant children from dysfunctional families, ranging from 5-17 years of age. Would the advocates back off if police brought vagrant lawbreakers to shelters instead of arresting them? In Elizabethan England the poor laws were enacted to control vagrant men who were seen as subversive. A vagrant breath of hot air fluttered the ends of his black silk tie. Combined with his five o'clock shadow, he looked like a vagrant. His eyes scanned the yard, but the only sound to be heard now was the gentle tinkle of the windchimes as the night-time breeze played with a few vagrant strands of his hair. The Ibn Rushd Institute for Vagrant Youths at Qudsayya receives vagrant youths placed in its care by the juvenile courts. The vagrant children accommodated clearly suffer from health problems, as shown in the medical report. I am now no better than your pregnant vagrant friend in the eyes of the government, and I expect I will be treated with exactly the same lack of sympathy. Along with San Francisco paying their vagrants and Chicago now planning on building homes along with paying them, the vagrant lifestyle is becoming more and more attractive. A taxon may be NA because it is not a wild population or not within its natural range in the region, or because it is a vagrant to the region. The difficult circumstances in which vagrant children live demands special attention and care, a topic which has been discussed at length. The civic authorities plead helplessness in feeding the vagrant population and point out that a proposal to rehabilitate them in the suburbs is hanging fire. A vagrant lichen is not attached to a substrate at all, and lives its life being blown around by the wind. Again fairly common, and always amusing, are the monikers drawn from the childhood of a particular vagrant. Show More Sentences To be convincing a vagrant must pile it on. A sticky thriller about a vagrant blunderingly avenging his parents' murder, it was an intentionally clumsy yet pretty piece that didn't follow formula. There is no evidence that the species occurs in the Caspian region as anything other than a scarce vagrant, and these birds are now regarded as being stragglers from the large Northwest European wintering population. The calm waters of the lake reflected and exaggerated the colours and lent an air of unreality when a vagrant breeze roiled the water and caused the picture to sway and blur. A vagrant breeze swirling around the mountainside twisted a tendril of smoke over the young monk and sent him back reeling and coughing and with eyes streaming. As such, begging and vagrancy are regarded as an offence and an infringement of the Penal Code, rather than as a social problem of which the victim is the beggar or vagrant. His favourite directors, Ken Loach and Antonia Bird, have cast him as everything from a Glaswegian bus driver caught up in the Nicaraguan civil war to a homicidal vagrant. Although still quite numerous on the Iberian peninsula and in the Russian Federation, the species has become extinct or been reduced to vagrant status in parts of its former range. The son of an unlettered vagrant, he has a business degree from Mumbai University and several small companies: a mobile-phone shop, a printing business, also a share in a co-operative bank. Without a council he stopped many ecclesiastical abuses in Rome, disciplined vagrant clergy, and introduced firmer asceticism in the papal court, but his approach was harsh and severe. It was expected that great service would be rendered to society in establishing houses of refuge for vagrant children, or such as commit offences against propriety or sound morals. They are like the ox in Gibran's inspirational essay The Prophet who loves his yoke and thinks of the elk and deer of the forest as stray and vagrant things. In 2002, a system was instituted to look after vagrant mental patients, and 3,919 desocialized mental patients were put in touch with a mental health service. The vagrant leg proved to be the missing limb of the CMN's horse. In Atlantic Canada this species has only been sighted twice: two immature individuals from Nova Scotia in 1989 and 1990, suggesting the species is rare in these waters, or only occurs as a vagrant. Scilly is situated far into the Atlantic Ocean, so many American vagrant birds will make first European landfall in the archipelago. Scilly is responsible for many firsts for Britain, and is particularly good at producing vagrant American passerines. He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant. While widespread signs of vagrant beavers were found, spread as a breeding animal was slowed by watershed divides in the hilly terrain. Humpbacks have been considered rather vagrant into Persian Gulf, however new studies indicate more regular presences can be expected. Show More Sentences Lundy has attracted many vagrant birds, in particular species from North America. Hooded seals have also been known to be vagrant in the Canary Islands every now and then. He then walked to the next town where he was arrested for being an Aboriginal vagrant and sent to the reserve there. Taxes were remitted so that vagrant farmers could return home, especially in the overburdened Yangtze River Delta. Occasionally a vagrant individual reaches places far from its normal range, such as Nova Scotia and the Marianas. The mentally ill among the Igbos are referred to as onye ara and are typified by vagrant psychotics. While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love. When I was a youth I became a vagrant because of a broken home. We are fain to ask what is to become of Shakespeare and a host of others, who, with equal originality of thought, have avoided those vagrant exceptionalities of humour. This leads to oddities like the New World's Southern Lapwing and Collared Plover being covered forty pages after the Old World's Northern Lapwing and other vagrant plovers. Could Stephano Sartorelli, a displaced Bergamask begging the streets of Venice in 1545, have had more in common with an English vagrant than he did with an Italian gentleman? Examples from Classical Literature In the wood lot on the left silence reigned save for the vagrant breeze faintly rustling the leaves. Treating as an error the tradition of their vagrant character, he conceives them to be generally and above all autochthonic. And the vagrant we saw just now, on whom you bestowed a golden shower of remembrance as Father Zeus endowed the fair Danae? Or am I like a vagrant who has no possessions and no heartening expectations? What with the vagrant blood in her and the heritage compounded of many races, jees Uck developed a wonderful young beauty. A vagrant with white mice is a kenspeckle, and surely you can have no difficulty in tracing her. His moon face was inanimate, and vagrant emotions from his heart flicked across his features in quivers of anguish. There are some men born with a vagrant strain in the blood, an unsatiable inquisitiveness about the world beyond their doors. Their vagrant curiosity was aroused, but not yet to the point of investigation. He used it as a whip with which to scourge any vagrant hopes that dared creep into his heart. Is it, do you think chronic unemployment with a vagrant tendency? Wandering across the celestial sphere, the vagrant will pass close to Mars, Uranus, the thin crescent Moon and the Andromeda galaxy. Gabriel Faa, besides being a gipsy, was a vagrant and a deserter. Outside, a superhumanly drunk vagrant pounds a beer he finds in his inside coat pocket, then spits it all up in the gutter. But I did not come here to-night to teach manners to vagrant Yankees. This old tower is a complete brooding-place for vagrant birds. The vagrant, shiftless freedman was a social problem as well as economic. Find more words! 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