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

On leaving the store, Ms. Adickes was arrested on a charge of vagrancy.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

Another man, I don’t remember his name, asked, “Are they rough on the vagrancy law down there?”

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

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

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

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

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