Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoboism
Literary usage of Hoboism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1919)
"... is not in the line of his advancement to a higher plane, and if unchecked must
cause an arrest of development. If persisted in it leads to hoboism. ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"... had come through all the way from El Paso coiled up inside a piece of machinery
loaded on a gondola—mere boys, mere insignificant shrimps of hoboism. ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"... tendency to hoboism, and had once beaten his way from Springfield, 111., to St.
Louis on a freight train. He had made attempts to hypnotize himself by ..."
4. The American Japanese Problem: A Study of the Racial Relations of the East by Sidney Lewis Gulick (1914)
"... country to have these Japanese immigrants settling down in permanent family
relationships than to have them remain in permanent irresponsible hoboism. ..."
5. Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim (1915)
"merged in hoboism, or to make the climb of old progenitors over again. "What is
true of individuals and families in this respect holds true also of nations, ..."
6. Christianity and the Social Crisis by Walter Rauschenbusch (1907)
"... respect into petty thievery and vagrancy, and over the gate to the long road
of hoboism is written, "Leave all hope behind, all ye that enter here. ..."
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