vagrancy

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

On Jan. 18, 1888, the Los Angeles Evening Express reported that “39 tramps, known to the constables as ‘hobos,’” had been arrested and found guilty of vagrancy.

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

Many were jailed for petty offenses like loitering and vagrancy.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024

They settled for a charge of vagrancy and gave him the option of being expelled from the state or serving jail time.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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

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 Buckland, E. S. Lang

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 Maclaren, Alexander

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 Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)