vagabones

"vagabones," and hinted darkly at sweeping changes when the ship should get back to the United States.

Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

An 'I'm tould thim Jarman vagabones won't let ye sleep at night;

Mr. Punch's History of the Great War 1900

"Oh, tattheration to you all, you unfeeling vagabones!" says he, when he recovered his breath; and he staggered and spun round and round till he reeled into the stable, back foremost, but the ass received him with a kick on the broadest part of his small clothes, and laid him comfortably on the dunghill.

Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

Has ta noa moor sense nor to believe in a lot o 'lyin vagabones like thease?

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

When it was opened, she came stamping upstairs, and as I advanced to meet her, she shook her fists in my face, shouting out: "I could tear your eyes out, you vagabones."

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

'I don't take up with no runagate vagabones, you see, else.'

St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

"Maybe he is ashamed of having cursed those two vagabones, being our own flesh and blood, worse luck."

The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

But neither in France, nor Germany, nor Italy, is a wayfarer's life safe from the vagabones after sundown.

The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

-- I say your mild, quiet, poor fool of a pasthor (for I know my own faults, partly, God forgive me!), and I can't spake to you as you deserve, you hard-living vagabones, that are as insensible to your duties as you are to the weather.

Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Samuel Lover 1832

"Ay, an 'we'd give you the same," returned Scaddhan, "if your's was gone, too; ha, ha, ha! it's not moneyless vagabones we want here."

Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831