Sentence example with the word 'vagrancy'

vagrancy

afoot and lighthearted, divagation, errantry, gadding, inexertion, laziness, pererration, roam, shiftlessness, spring fever, vagabondia, wayfaring

Definition n. the state of wandering from place to place

Last update: June 20, 2015


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The first reconstruction legislature met on the 16th of October 1865, and at once proceeded to enact stringent vagrancy laws and other measures against the freedmen; these laws the North 1 South Carolina ceded its western lands to the United States in 1787 and Georgia in 1802.   [Please select]

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Slade, the spiritual medium, before a London magistrate, on a charge of vagrancy, suggests the rather trite remark that "history repeats itself."   [Please select]

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The major cause for his lying as well as other delinquencies, particularly his vagrancy, is, of course, the mental traits peculiar to epilepsy.   [Please select]

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(I had come out of Kingston Jail last on a vagrancy committal.)   [Please select]

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A long list of disqualifying crimes was added, including wife-beating and conviction for vagrancy.   [Please select]

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But the laws relating to apprenticeship, vagrancy, and enforced punitive employment turned out to be of greater practical importance.   [Please select]

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The principal petty offenses were, it would seem, vagrancy and "enticing away" laborers or apprentices.   [Please select]

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