(1) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
(2) Doctor Sleep , his 56th novel, revisits Danny in adulthood, when he has become an alcoholic drifter haunted by the memory of his raging father.
(3) With the coming of steam drifters in 1900 trawling for white fish became easier and they substituted for the herring and the taste for herring has been lost.
(4) In the classic Hollywood movie, whether the hero is cop, cowboy, private eye, rebel or drifter, there comes a moment when this solitary, self-sufficient loner faces the bad guys all by himself.
(5) AP Singh, representing 19-year-old Sharma, reminded the court of his client's youth and the effect of alcohol, while Thakur's lawyer argued that the 26-year-old drifter had a young son and an aged mother.
(6) Some, like a young white Californian who gave his name only as Sam, are drifters with no clear-cut agenda.
(7) Anticipation is high, therefore, for this sequel to the horror classic, in which Danny, the young boy whose telepathic gift stirred up the ghosts of the Overlook hotel, has grown up to be a troubled drifter using what is left of his "shining" power to bring comfort to the dying in a New Hampshire nursing home.
(8) Among them was Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time, Hyper Light Drifter, Might No 9 from Comcept, Fenic Rage, Aztez and Threes, which is just about the only game on this whole article that my wife would recognise.
(9) They had been joined by a fruit seller and a part-time gym assistant, a former colleague and the juvenile, who was an illiterate drifter, on a "joy ride" after hours of heavy drinking on the evening of the assault.
(10) He described his bookmaker father, Joseph, as a feckless drifter.
(11) In The Homesman , Tommy Lee Jones’s grizzled drifter reflects that folk are happy to yak about death and taxes, “but when it comes to crazy, they just hush up”.
(12) The 59-year-old “drifter” was named as John Russel Houser .
(13) Houser, 59, was described by police as a “drifter”.
(14) Guthrie and Seeger would come to represent different poles of the same world: one a self-mythologising drifter with an outsider's wild charisma, the other a steadfast, reassuring figure amid turbulent times.
(15) Usually, a flammable liquid was poured and ignited by a drifter who was a brief acquaintance and earlier involved in an argument with the victim.
(16) In our work ‘Drifter’ we performed on the rooftops of the vertical city.
(17) The shooter, described as a “drifter” with a history of mental illness, killed Jillian Johnson, 33, and Mayci Breaux, 21, and injured nine others.
(18) The descriptive names of the categories, together with their proportionate sizes and the mean annual consultation rates within the categories were: (1) 'Healthy and competent' (16%; 1.03); (2) 'Contented returners' (12%; 3.28); (3) 'Information seekers' (8%; 4.08); (4) 'Support seekers' (15%; 4.62); (5) 'Drifters' (21%; 2.21) and (6) 'Those hard to convince' (6%; 3.59).
(19) While the details are not yet known of when, where and how Houser, a drifter from Alabama, purchased his weapons, law enforcement said Friday he was denied a concealed-carry permit in 2006 due to a domestic violence report and arson arrest.
(20) The Drifters, or at least the latest reincarnation of a group that has had more parts than Trigger’s broom , provided the half-time entertainment at Goodison Park.
Vagabond
Definition:
(a.) Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
(a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
(a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
(n.) One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
(v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
Example Sentences:
(1) An adaptation of the award-winning novel Small Island, about Jamaican immigrants to Britain in the 1940s, and Desperate Romantics, about a group of "vagabond painters and poets" set among the "alleys, galleries and flesh houses of 19th-century industrial London", will be among the first to be broadcast later this year.
(2) He said while he was being filmed in the Vagabond studio in Bethnal Green he was thinking about Winston Churchill getting his tattoo done.
(3) In view of that it seems necessary to solve a problem of organizing tuberculosis-oriented treatment-and-labor preventoria to render health care to the vagabonds and other patients refusing medical intervention.
(4) It’s more comfortable for many to believe instead that these aliens are greedy and parasitical, scroungers and vagabonds who want to take our stuff – our jobs, our homes, our school places, our cures for our sicknesses.
(5) (10) Including the Rich Kids, Hot Club, Dead Men Walking, the Flying Padovanis, Slinky Vagabond, the Mavericks, the Philistines and, most recently, International Swingers .
(6) The female female lead a vagabond life and actively join the male male in their territories during the breeding season.
(7) When people think of the homeless , most can only think of the seeming vagabonds that stink up entire subway cars and beg for change on the street.
(8) As an example of why the bylaws needed revoking, an alderman said that one of their conditions was that the porters should "toss out vagabonds and vagrants".
(9) The vagabonds had many troubles, especially, they often escaped from leprosaria.
(10) They were two vagabonds, Cloquet watching with slackness the young womanizering Flaubert.
(11) And remember, society's hard cases – what the Elizabethan poor law (that's Elizabeth I) would have dubbed the "sturdy rogue and vagabonds" who don't want to work and so enrage the tabloids – are not the type you'll probably find in this sort of office in Hull or elsewhere.
(12) Low incidence rates of tuberculosis are directly related to social factors, including higher morbidity among such groups as migrants, vagabonds, ex-convicts and alcohol abusers.
(13) "I think that in the same way Gabe is probably glad that his mother was a vagabond and not around him enough, and he got to go to all these strange places that now feel enriching."