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Recent Examples of clochardIn summer the clochards like to live along the quay, sleep under the bridges.—Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
The beggars, widows, and families with sick relatives who once made a pilgrimage to the gates of the parliament building in the Green Zone to beg lawmakers for help are now barred from entry.
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Ned Parker,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2012
All the beggars at the intersection of Lee Road and the off-ramp of I-4 are completely out of hand.
Dillane is already getting some high marks for his authentic portrayal of a homeless drifter and addict from those who have seen it in rough cuts.
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Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
13 May 2025
Charades Why Buyers Care: Dickinson shows a different side of himself, making his feature directorial debut with this story of a drifter trying to reintegrate into society.
By twenty-six, Sam was fully formed—auburn hair, a mustache, and a wardrobe permanently under siege from smoke, whiskey, and the grime of vagabond living.
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Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
As McCarty, Gere is vagabond at the end of a long and dusty road, but finally at home and in hiding in the rural area of Riddle, Missouri.
Daniels’ first foray into the horror genre shot to No. 1 on Netflix after dropping Aug. 30, which may have a little bit — or a whole lot — to do with Close, who clearly had the time of her life playing a tramp named Alberta.
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Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2024
On March 7, 1913, rescuers were desperately searching the same waters for survivors of the Alum Cine, a British tramp steamer, that exploded while being loaded with 350 tons of dynamite (nine boxcars’ worth) that was bound to Panama for construction of the canal that was underway.
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Frederick N. Rasmussen,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Mar. 2024
Diminutive Darcy Rose Byrnes makes for a terrific waif of a hotel maid, her presence central to the action.
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Christopher Smith,
Orange County Register,
17 Mar. 2025
The immortal embarrassment of Nosferatu The arduous, debilitating affair between melancholic 1830s waif Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) and her vampire lover-enemy Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård, under tons of prosthetics) begins with deception.
Unlike monks who withdrew from ordinary life, mendicants stressed a life of poverty, spent in travel from town to town to preach and help the poor.
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Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
27 May 2025
Instead of withdrawing from the world in isolated monasteries, members of this order travel as mendicants to aid the poor as well as serve as missionaries and teachers.
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