vagrancy

Maybe there’s a connection between population flight and vagrancy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

The story takes place during a season of vagrancy in Jacqueline’s life, tracking her efforts to find shelter and enough food to keep from fainting.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

“Then you’ll spend the night in jail for vagrancy and threatening behavior. We’ll let you on your way in the morning if you’ve learned to keep a civil tongue in your head.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Ah! wild wit, now at last Thy vagrancies are o'er; The ear and gazing eye That you enthrall'd before.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 by Various

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

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

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