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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 Harte, Bret

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)

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

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

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