vagrancy

How To Use vagrancy In A Sentence

• Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Les Miserables
• But how far could they go before they would be arrested for what the white people called vagrancy? Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
• Dear Mollie -- I was glad to know that bound with the fetters of Science, and depressed by thought, you were Struggling yet to ascend the rugged Steep -- where "Star eyed Science" and fame unfold their banners to every anxious aspirant, and under whose folds of magnitude and magnificence all alike are permitted to recumb, and recur those who have in vagrancy strayed "tracing Shadows" -- beware of Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,June 2, 1854
• Police would begin by warning sidewalk solicitors that they are in violation of vagrancy laws.
• Police would begin by warning sidewalk solicitors that they are in violation of vagrancy laws.
• It is apparent that the authorities lack the determination and will power to solve the persistent problem of vagrancy.
• The report concluded that prison terms for relatively minor offences including vagrancy and larceny destabilised family and spousal relationships, and led to a loss of accommodation and employment.
• The question of the future of the banana industry also earned a place on the list as well as policies to improve life in poor communities in an effort to reduce crime, drugs, prostitution and vagrancy.
• And meanwhile the quite obvious cause of vagrancy is staring one in the face. Down and Out in Paris and London
• It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis