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Kirkwood got out, not without a qualm of regret at leaving the compartment; therein, at least, they had some title to consideration, by virtue of their tickets; now they were utterly vagabondish, penniless adventurers.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

"But there be others, happier few, The vagabondish sons of God, Who know the by-ways and the flowers, And care not how the world may plod."

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

Gideon was not nervous, and saw little need for strategy with this rather vagabondish fellow.

From The Wrong Twin by Wilson, Harry Leon

And the guests plying between the source of supply and the breakfast-table proper created a vagabondish camping-out air of geniality that did much to dispel the natural stiffness of the morning intercourse.

From The Parts Men Play by Baxter, Arthur Beverley

And so Maurice went on leading an idle, vagabondish sort of life, in a state of constant feverish agitation.

From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.