| They were feared and reviled as street rats and guttersnipes, vagrants and beggars. |
| But I think he displays a real understanding and sympathy for his coster girls, criminals and dosshouse vagrants. |
| Half were cottagers, landless farm laborers, or vagrants, and one-seventh worked exclusively in textiles, mining, and other village industries. |
| Of course he was in exile and did have a great affinity for those kinds of characters, for tramps and vagrants and displaced, placeless people. |
| But then tramps and vagrants manage pretty well without any of those, although one couldn't say most look happy about it. |
| Police Chief Berryer's men routinely rounded up vagrants and sent them off to colonize Canada. |
