vagabond
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Its stone fireplace comes to rest on what appear to be colossal boulders deposited by the last vagabond glacier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A friend unexpectedly hosted a vagabond queen who birthed a litter in their place.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
Before moving to Nashville, where she still lives, and launching as a solo artist, Ferrell was a vagabond who traveled between the Big Easy and Seattle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
But over the following years, purported sightings of Majorana multiplied: as a beggar in Naples, a monk in Calabria, and a vagabond in South America.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
Most folks took no more notice of me than they would a cartman selling oysters or a vagabond from Canvastown. just as I set my mind to leave, Captain Farrar came back out.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
He said they were a "band of vagabonds" who were trying to escape from conventional regimental discipline.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2022
The chapter continues: "Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places."
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2022
"I joined our tribe of rogues and vagabonds a long time ago," said Mirren.
From Reuters ● Feb. 28, 2022
I always say we’re just gypsies — vagabonds who form these tribes of weird families who go from place to place to create art: I couldn’t imagine doing anything else with my life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2021
He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great brown eyes, Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer, leader of a gang of vagabonds.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Vocabulary lists containing vagabond
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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