vagrancy

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

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

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

The sheriff returns to the lot with railroad officials and makes noises about vagrancy laws.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

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