Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 1, 2025
"Vagabondising from one paltry village to another," as Reed, one of their number, put it, the members became a legitimate prey of boarding-house keepers and stablemen. Small wonder that service in the State Governments was considered not only more dignified, but more agreeable in these days of paramount State rights.
Educate him, polish him as you may, it will be in him still, and he will love to go off into the old woods at times, to lay around loose for a season, vagabondising among the wild and savage things of the wilderness. It is but indulging the original instincts of our nature. True, he will not relish his savage ways a great while.
Even my devotion yesterday was not worth much, for my thoughts went vagabondising off to Charlotte Halliday in the midst of a very sensible practical sermon. In the afternoon I read the papers, and dozed by the fire in the coffee-room two-thirds coke by the way, and alternating from the fierceness of a furnace to the dreary blackness of an exhausted coal-mine still thinking of Charlotte.
'These people, who go tramping about the country a-pilfering and vagabondising on all hands, prefer to keep a bird, when a landed proprietor and a justice asks his price! That old woman's been to school. I know she has. Don't tell me no, he roared to the widow, 'I say, yes. Barnaby's mother pleaded guilty to the accusation, and hoped there was no harm in it. 'No harm! said the gentleman. 'No.
"Well, young man, I've heard all about you from my sister. So you wish to leave off vagabondising, do you?" "Yes, sir," replied Joey. "How old are you? can you keep books?" "I am seventeen, and have kept books," replied our hero, in innocence; for he considered Mrs Chopper's day-books to come under that denomination. "And you have some money how much?"
Sheldon for the key of that bookcase would be quite impossible. I think his books must be copies of special editions, not meant to be read. I wonder whether they are real books, or only upholsterer's dummies?" And then her fancies went vagabondising off to that little archetype of a cottage on the heights of Wimbledon-common, in which she and Valentine were to live when they were married.
Poverty makes a man acquainted with strange bedfellows; and I made one or two queer acquaintances on the Thames Embankment and acquired a taste for vagabondising about among the poor which lasted a year or two and has proved to be of no small service since. Slumming had not become a fashion at that time of day; but I have never aimed at being in the fashion, and I did a good deal of it.
"Because papa abhors a gay 'vagabondising' life, and always wished his eldest son to settle down in the county. I know though he says nothing that this has been a sore point between them for nearly twenty years." "And I know," added Eulalie, mysteriously, "that papa was going to make a last effort, and have Frederick proposed as member for Kingcombe.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking