vagrancy
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Now he’s vying to be the first homeless mayor of a city overwhelmed by vagrancy, disorder and crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
In essence, it was a vagrancy ordinance by another name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
Once released from prison, she emigrated to New York where in 1902 there is a record of her being placed in a workhouse as punishment for vagrancy.
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
Reviewing the case in 1970, the court vindicated Ms. Adickes, calling the vagrancy charge “groundless.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
The sheriff returns to the lot with railroad officials and makes noises about vagrancy laws.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Old vagrancies awoke, and he resolved that, dearly as he loved his house, he would not enter it again till dawn.
From The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
If we would have our hearts calm, we must let Him guide them, sway them, curb their vagrancies, stimulate their desires, and satisfy the desires which He has stimulated.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
Her truancies and vagrancies concerned them not: she was a law to herself, like the birds and squirrels.
From Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte
For now he would divert me to another topic and again bring me back to her, so that it all seemed the vagrancies of a boy's inconsequent chatter.
From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Perhaps Uncle Contarine continued clement merely because in the nature of things his responsibilities for the vagrancies of his kinsman were inevitably less intimate.
From Oliver Goldsmith by E. S. Lang Buckland
