Homeless old lady sheltering in barrel

Usage examples of vagrant.

My vagrant fancy shewed me her naked form, all seemed ravishing, and yet I thought that though she might inspire a passing fancy she could not arouse a durable affection.

There, under two green umbrellas, like two fat rajahs in their shaking howdahs upon the backs of two white elephants, the friends would sit in solemn equanimity awaiting the evasive cunner, the vagrant perch or cod or the occasional flirtatious eel.

His sweetheart did not follow his example, and so placed herself on the pretext of defending my victim that she increased my enjoyment, while my vagrant hand did not seem to displease her.

He took time to blow upon that slowmatch, but then, as he harbored scant faith in the ability of the ancient, ill-balanced and woefully inaccurate firelock to accomplish anything more of value than a loud noise to alert the camp, he reined up long enough to check by a vagrant beam of moonlight that the priming had not shaken from out the pan of his new wheel-lock pistol.

But a gamekeeper took me for a vagrant and threatened to set his dogs on me.

But how often was the exile, the vagrant, the Imperial beggar, humbled with scorn, insulted with pity, and degraded in his own eyes and those of the nations!

The rich and varied animal life of the cold plains constantly renewed itself, and the old bones scattered across the landscape were often swept away by vagrant streams into jumbled piles.

The Mater Mundi had driven Diana deep underground, leaving her rootless and alone as any vagrant.

Spirit of Spirits, leads back the vagrant spirit to its home, and accompanies it through the purifying processes, both real and symbolical, of its earthly transit.

She managed to clamp down and drink some more, recalling that she was just another vagrant summerling now, no longer the daughter of a rich, uptown clan with its own artesian well.

European vagrant, nearly always from Eastern Europe, who haunts the lowest type of Paris lodging-house, sometimes sleeps in railway stations, seldom ventures into the provinces, and then travels third-class or ticketless on the steps of trains or in goods trucks.

She strode to the larboard rail and marched up and down the deck, staring sternly at the small white houses on the far bank of the estuary and the little brownsailed tuggers that were slipping slowly out to sea before the vagrant morning airs.

We turn the street corner into a brick-walled alley crowded by wheelie bins and smelling of vagrant piss.

The acquiescence of the provincials encouraged their governors to acquire, or perhaps to usurp, a discretionary power of employing the rack, to extort from vagrants or plebeian criminals the confession of their guilt, till they insensibly proceeded to confound the distinction of rank, and to disregard the privileges of Roman citizens.

Lo Manto joined the Naples police force one week past his twenty-first birthday and was initially assigned to a street patrol unit designed to keep the main tourist areas free of vagrants, hookers, and pickpockets.