Vagrancy

He then continues: "This experience reiterated the lesson that the vast majority of these wanderers are of the class with whom a life of vagrancy is a chosen means of living without work." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dear Mollie -- I was glad to know that bound with the fetters of Science, and depressed by thought, you were Struggling yet to ascend the rugged Steep -- where "Star eyed Science" and fame unfold their banners to every anxious aspirant, and under whose folds of magnitude and magnificence all alike are permitted to recumb, and recur those who have in vagrancy strayed "tracing Shadows" -- beware of ❋ Unknown (2008)

And meanwhile the quite obvious cause of vagrancy is staring one in the face. ❋ Unknown (1933)

Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But how far could they go before they would be arrested for what the white people called vagrancy? ❋ Harriette Gillem Robinet (1998)

The next three were called vagrancy: (1) Loafing on the docks; (2) "sleeping out" nights; (3) getting "wandering spells." ❋ Jane Addams (1897)

It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. ❋ Unknown (1862)

Such harassment takes the form of more or less prolonged detentions, or accusations which later serve as the basis for convicting the accused of crimes such as vagrancy and drug abuse. ❋ Aronson, Bernard (1987)

Then, between 3 May and the end of the month, thousands of police, conducted large-scale raids all over the country to round up Africans suspected of 'vagrancy', contraventions of the pass laws, tax offences, and the like. ❋ Unknown (1969)

Our courts frown upon the practice of arresting persons on charges such as vagrancy in order to enable the police to question them upon some other offence which they are suspected of having committed. ❋ Unknown (1957)

Both wanderers, possessed by that spirit of vagrancy which is the outward expression of an inner restlessness. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

Have students form generalizations (Women were usually arrested for "vagrancy"; certain intersections have more crime than others; certain officers keep arresting the same people, etc.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

When new mayor Tommy Carcetti takes office, the acting police chief orders mass arrests for petty crimes such as vagrancy and open container violations. ❋ Radley Balko (2010)

"vagrancy" as a teen, would not be exposed to prospective employers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

a young man arrested for "vagrancy" by the sheriff of Shelby County, Alabama. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All the new state legislatures established after the war enacted sets of laws known as the Black Codes, which gave power to local officials to arrest any black person who appeared to be unemployed and to fine them for vagrancy. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)