hobo
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As an adult, I’ve tried to will myself back into enthrallment with this plucky heroine who repels a scary hobo, bravely goes without food and saves a poor Italian immigrant when others are against her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Yes, it wasn't a boy; it was a little girl, but I couldn't tell because she was dressed like a hobo.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2023
The trilogy includes “The Areas of My Expertise,” a book that contains, among other things, a list of 700 hobo names.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023
Fred Ward’s lonesome hobo face has turned up in enough films to make him a familiar figure to American moviegoers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
Never mind that Walter can’t hop trains—hell will freeze over before I let Marlena spend a single night in a hobo jungle.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Starting with “Rolling Nowhere,” his 1984 account of hopping trains with hoboes, Conover has made a career of immersing himself in seemingly impenetrable subcultures, then writing with sympathy and insight about his experiences.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2022
He traveled around the world — Haiti, Bosnia, Afghanistan — for high-profile magazine assignments and rode the rails across the United States, chronicling some of the last of the hoboes.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
Or will Rory’s talk of hoboes and the inconsequence of mankind as seen from space have some effect on Pete’s work on the new alpine skiing account?
From Slate ● May 7, 2012
I've ordered a waterfall from England and a ski lift, and hoboes to ride in the boxcars, and cows and cities.
From Time Magazine Archive
He traveled for a long time with the hoboes and worked for a short time as a scarecrow.
From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo
When you think about the folk era, when it was really hot — burning hot — it was hobos on freighters writing songs about social injustice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
Longtime Dylan followers are accustomed to the peculiar cast that haunts his songs — scarlet women, jughead criminals, wanton judges, sanctified hobos and unscrupulous gamblers — and they festoon these pages as well.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022
In 2014, Deadspin published the article "Candy Corn Is Garbage," which said the candy was the diet of "hobos, serial murderers and Satan."
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
Then, they rode the rail like a couple of hobos.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2022
Back then, there were hobos that rode the rails and lived along the tracks in between times.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
