Meanings of vagabond life in English

He was a weak genius who preferred a vagabond life to methodical labour.

Yet the vagabond life had had its charm, too.

His vagabond life had taught him some worldly wisdom.

The Lycosa shares the Cricket's views: like him, she finds a thousand pleasures in the vagabond life.

They had a sort of genius at finding out every unlawful means to support a vagabond life.

Kexel, the friend of the two last named, lived a gay and vagabond life, and is celebrated for his comedies.

How many times in my vagabond life had I spent the night less protected than I was at this moment!

So I must leave France, begin my vagabond life again, and say farewell to Toulon, which recalls so many memories to me!

I name it only because it embodies these old couplets, which still lead a vagabond life up and down the pages of country-almanacs:-

Though she looked back to her vagabond life in the streets with a shudder, she yearned for its freedom, but without its degradations.

For weeks and months Sam led a wandering vagabond life, and surely a stranger or more restless vagabond never went upon the road.

Was it really only the desire to take her from her vagabond life which had induced Lienhard to open this house to her?

Westward I went, towards sunset almost, and for the two following years I led, I fear, what would be considered a very vagabond life.

(Apprentice Jean Jacques has left his master, and entered on a vagabond life.)

"And I instead lead an idle, vagabond life the year through."

It was a return to the ancient persecution of the gipsies, the constant hunting of independent people, leading vagabond lives, of the Middle Ages.