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For a decade, animania has sprouted vagrantly in the land of Walt Disney and Hanna-Barbera, its true believers convening in comic-book stores, on the Web and at conventions like last month's Anime Weekend Atlanta.

From Time Magazine Archive

The boys let their eyes shift vagrantly over to Bernabe, and they gave him a cluster of cool, sleepy-eyed glances that almost made him shiver.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

I listened silently, with tears almost ready at my eyes, but with thoughts vagrantly straying from his words to the garden outside.

From In the Valley by Frederic, Harold

While these thoughts coursed more or less vagrantly through Waitstill's mind, she suddenly determined to get her cloak and hood and run over to see Mrs. Boynton.

From Story of Waitstill Baxter by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith